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Summary

A medieval moated site in fields north east of Kirk Bramwith.

Monument Type(s):

• MOAT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds:

Full Description

<1> A trapezoidal site, 50m north to south, 30m wide at the south end, and 25m wide at the south. Island [was] slightly raised above surrounding ground on its west side, sloping gently down to the east. The eastern arm is much narrower than the others. A little standing water in the moat, but mostly just marshy land. No obvious foundations etc. on island. A molehill near the north end produced a fragment of green glazed medieval pot.[Photographs]

Note: LM 11/11/2004. At some time after the above account was written the site was levelled for intensive ploughing. Aerial photographs from the 'Cities Revealed' project show the moat, and a prominent channel leading to the River Don. The Portable Antiquities Scheme has recorded pieces of high status medieval enamel depicting a religious theme, recovered from the site. The find would support the suggestion of a thirteenth century date. Portable Antiquities Scheme Annual Report 2003/04

<2> Homestead Moat.

<3> Le Patourel suggests that this site may have been a lodge to Eshfield Park, 'improved' by the Earl of Lancaster and let to 'divers tenants' before 1322.

<1> South Yorkshire Archaeology Service, c1980, Moated Sites in South Yorkshire - Thematic report for the DoE (Unpublished document). SSY337.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Various, Ordnance Survey Index Card (Index). SSY217.

<3> Le Patourel, H.E.J., 1973, The Moated Sites of Yorkshire., p. 125 (Monograph). SSY833.

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