Record Details
| MonUID: | MST471 |
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| HER Number: | 00471 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Audley's Moat, Endon |
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Summary
The scheduled remains of a medieval moated site, which is thought to be the site of a house belonging to Lord de Audley.
| Grid Reference: | SJ 9312 5365 |
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| Map Sheet: | SJ95SW |
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| Parish: | Endon and Stanley, Staffordshire Moorlands District |
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| Map: | Show location on Streetmap |
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Monument Type(s):
- FINDSPOT (NEOLITHIC - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- MOAT (MEDIEVAL - 1066 AD to 1485 AD)
Associated Finds:
- FLAKE (NEOLITHIC - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Associated Events:
- EST2290 - A geophysical survey at Audley's Moat, Endon, 2012. (NRHE Name - Audley's Moat, Endon)
Protected Status:
- Scheduled Monument 1014100: Moated site 80m south east of Hallwater House
Full description
Moated Site: A roughly oval mound set in natural water course. Orientated north-east to south-west. Parts of an encircling ditch to the east, but mainly destroyed by drainage system. Parallel with the ditch is a narrow platform skirting the foot of the mound. Possibly a weak and crude moated site. No structural remains. Stonework found by probing within mound. There is a section of stone walling towards the eastern edge of the platform.
Flint Scatter: Four worked flints said to have been found on the moat platform in 1931. The finds were reported to be in Hanley Museum, although they have no record of the acquisition. <1> <2>
Tradition associates the site with a hall and the seat of Lord de Audley. <3>
Water control measures and moat evident. Also field boundaries across the site are stone walls whilst all those near by are hedges. Clearly a moated site. <4>
Magnetometry survey identified two main water pipes as well other modern intrusions. Resisitivity survey appeared to reveal building foundations, including what has been interpreted as possible tower bases. Areas of disturbed results perhaps show fallen walls. <5> (JT, 25/07/2013)
Sources and further reading
| <1> | SST390 - Index: Ordnance Survey. See cards. Ordnance Survey Card Index. SJ 95 SW - 2 (J. Rigg - Ordnance Survey - 1959). |
| <2> | SST390 - Index: Ordnance Survey. See cards. Ordnance Survey Card Index. SJ 95 SW - 2 (T.N.S.F.C. Volume 66 (1931-1933), pages 192-193 (by B. B. Simms)). |
| <3> | SST390 - Index: Ordnance Survey. See cards. Ordnance Survey Card Index. SJ 95 SW - 2 (Oral Communication - Mr. Tom Bentley - 17-Sept-1959). |
| <4> | SST3521 - Verbal communication: Chris Wardle (Staffordshire County Council). up to 2004. Observations by a member of the Historic Environment Team, Staffordshire County Council. 1996. |
| <5> | SST4662 - Geophysical Survey Report: Stoke-on-Trent Museum Archaeology Society. 2012. Geophysical Survey at Audley's Moat, Endon. |
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