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HHER Number:1780
Type of record:Monument
Name:POSSIBLE MOATED SITE, WELL WOOD, WATTON-AT-STONE

Summary - not yet available

Grid Reference:TL 282 190
Map Sheet:TL21NE
Parish:Watton-at-Stone
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Monument Types

  • MOAT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1500 AD)

Full description

A sub-circular enclosure with a well-defined bank and ditch on the E, the ditch being the more outstanding feature. An entrance is visible on the SE side<1>. Banks 2-2.5m high. Remains of an excavation trench across NE corner visible <2>.
'A scatter of early medieval pottery appears on the surface, and a 12C Caen-stone mortar was found' within the enclosure <3>. For the mortar, see <4>.

Sources and further reading

---Index: OS Records.
<1>Bibliographic reference: VCH Herts vol.2 (1908).
<2>Unpublished document: Ancient Monuments Field Report.
<3>Report: Tony Rook. 2004. Archaeological assessment, evaluation and watching brief: All Saints' churchyard, Datchworth. archaeological assessment. RNO 1583
<4>Article in serial: Anon. 1970. Chapel Wood, Well Wood; Herts Archaeol Review 1 (spring 1970), 20.