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Monument Number 358973

Hob Uid: 358973
Location :
Norfolk
Breckland
Horningtoft
Grid Ref : TF9420023310
Summary : Earthworks of a Medieval moated manor house and associated features including a field system.
More information : (TF94182324) Manor House (NR) (Site of) (TF94182321)
Well (NR) (1)

Small circular bank and ditch with one of greater size and of
horse-shoe shape adjoining it, found in April 1855, in clearing
Great Wood, Horningtoft. Foundations of regular building of
rubble-work, and a well in very perfect state lay within the
earthworks which covered an area of about one acre.
Traditionally the site of "a great castle". (2)

Old road 15 ft wide traced for quarter of a mile, past the
earthworks and beside the road for 70 yards going off in an
easterly direction towards N Elmham. Excavated 1852 (?32).
Visited by R R Clarke 14 4 1933. (3,4)

Medieval manor house site. Raised ring 50' diam 7 1/2' high
looks like a small motte; traces of rubble masonry.

Double-ringed enclosure, old road and other features visible. (5)

The present Manor House (TF 94422378) is 19th century, post 1826 and its predecessor was in the village. The large wood on the
east side of the parish including the Medieval manor site
covers almost exactly the area of the demense land. Around the
edge was a large bank and ditch. Carthew's plan shews (the
earthwork of) a circular building within a roughly circular
moat. (6)

A manorial site comprising a sub-circular dry moat, a boundary
bank and ditch, and minor contemporary fields/enclosures. The
moat has been eaten into by quarrying on the north, and part of
the southern side seems to have been eradicated by the plough.
Extensive disturbance within indicates grassed-over building
foundations which seem to have had a normal rectangular layout.
A small depression marks the well, (the fate of the silver
scales noted on the OS 25" as found in it in 1830 is not
apparently recorded).

Resurveyed at 1:2500 (7)

Further information. The author considers the site to be a circular moat (8).

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Source details : OS 6" 1959
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Source details : Norf Arch 4 1855 359 (Messrs Harrod & Carthew)
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Source details : VCH (Norf) 1 1901 318 (F Haverfield)
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Source details : Norwich Castle Mus 6" and Notes (R R Clarke 1933)
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Source details : APs 106G/UK/1427/4212-4 1946
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Source details : Launditch W Norf 1971 112ff (P Wade-Martins)
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Source Number : 6a
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Source details : Hundred of Launditch III 1879 240-2 and plan (G A Carthew)
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Source details : F1 BHS 10-JAN-73
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Source Number : 8
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Source details : E Anglian Archaeol 10 1980 27-8 (P Wade-Martins)
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Monument Types:
Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Medieval
Monument End Date : 1540
Monument Start Date : 1066
Monument Type : Moat, Manor House, Field System
Evidence : Earthwork

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Related Records from other datasets:
External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : NF 98
External Cross Reference Notes :
External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Norfolk)
External Cross Reference Number : 7168
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Norfolk)
External Cross Reference Number : 11358
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : TF 92 SW 3
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Related Warden Records :
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1973-01-10
End Date : 1973-01-10
Associated Activities :
Activity type : MANAGEMENT SURVEY
Start Date : 1994-01-01
End Date : 1994-12-31