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Monument Type(s):

• MOAT (13th CENTURY to 15tH CENTURY - 1201 AD to 1500 AD)

Other References/Statuses

• AMIE Reference / HOB UID: 56177
• National Monuments Record: SE52NE2
• Old Sites & Monuments Record Number: 9317

Full description

SITUATED ON THE NORTH BANK OF THE RIVER AIRE THE MOAT WAS FED BY THE RIVER AND AS THERE WAS NO CAUSEWAY IT IS PRESUMED THAT ACCESS TO THE HALL WAS BY BOAT. AT THE SW CORNER WAS A HARBOUR WITH RIVER ACCESS. THE HALL WENT THROUGH 3 BUILDING PHASES IN THE 13TH - 15TH CENTURIES. MOAT:TYPE A2(D) Excavated by: JLP (1964) Form: Earthwork, Soilmark (06/1984) (1 - 9)
Information about East Haddlesey and the moated site is included in a book published in 2010.(10)

A double moated site beside the river Aire was excavated by Mrs. J. Le Patourel for M.P.B.W. The inner island (360 ft. by 2IO ft.) was roughly rectangular with the principal buildings concentrated in its W. half. No trace of building was found in the area between the moats. The site was deserted by the middle of the 16th century. In its final form the house consisted of buildings extending around, and beyond, three sides of a small courtyard. To the W. were bakehouses and other service buildings; to the N. a residential wing. On the E. a light wall joined the N. wing to the kitchens of the main block, which itself extended S. of the hall, with central hearth and screens, lying beyond the courtyard area. Brick, timber and limestone were used in wall construction; the roof was tiled. An isolated brick and timber house (85 ft. by 20 ft.) followed the moat edge in the extreme E. corner of the island. From the main bridge with its small adjoining gatehouse a cobbled road led from the SE. moat to an entrance at the N. end of the hall. An earlier, larger hall lay beneath the latest one and earlier prototypes beneath the courtyard buildings. In this middle phase, construction was of timber on low limestone walls roofed with thin limestone slabs. The kitchen, with its five superimposed hearths, was common to both periods. The earliest house, entirely of timber and without roofing-tiles, lay on the same axis as, but N. of, the later hall. Of this, two buildings were excavated and portions of others observed, all earlier than the inner moat. Pottery finds suggest they were destroyed early in the 13th century (8).

A geophysical survey identified anomalies thought to be associated with the Manor and Moat of Hall Garth. (11)

<1> Archive (Archive). SNY150.

<AP1> Peter Addyman, 01/01/76, Aerial Photograph (Aerial Photograph). SNY6626.

<AP2> Peter Addyman, 01/01/76, Aerial Photograph (Aerial Photograph). SNY6625.

<2> Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1977 - 1980, Yorkshire Studies Card, SE52NE 2030 (Card Index). SNY2.

<AP3> Peter Addyman, 01/01/76, Aerial Photograph (Aerial Photograph). SNY6624.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Various, Ordnance Survey Record Card, SE52NE002 (Card Index). SNY1.

<AP4> Peter Addyman, 01/01/76, Aerial Photograph (Aerial Photograph). SNY6623.

<4> Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1884, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, p 87; 114 (Serial). SNY2177.

<AP5> Anthony Crawshaw, 05/06/84, Aerial Photograph (Aerial Photograph). SNY2472.

<5> Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 1965, Yorkshire Archaeological Register 1964, p 319 - 320 (Article). SNY2223.

<6> Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph Series, 1973, THE MOATED SITES OF YORKSHIRE, PP23-36 71-82 83 87-8 89-91 93 95 96 114. (Monograph). SNY1682.

<7> 1912, Victoria County History Yorkshire Vol 2, P47-8 PLAN (Monograph). SNY2132.

<8> Medieval Archaeology, 1965, Medieval Britain in 1964, PP206-7 ILLUS (Article). SNY1752.

<9> 1964, DAILY TELEGRAPH (Serial). SNY1431.

<10> Henry Farrar, 2010, Sleepy Hollow? The former parish of Birkin including: West Haddlesey, Chapel and East Haddlesey, Temple Hirst, & Hirst Courtney. (Monograph). SNY20006.

<11> AOC Archaeology, 02/2017, Eggborough, Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT). Archaeological Geophysical Survey (Report). SNY22222.

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