NHER 54641 (Monument record) - Moat-like ditches of postulated medieval date

June 2011. Norfolk NMP.
A rectangular arrangement of four ditches, resembling a medieval moat, is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs (S1)-(S5), centred at TG 1143 0407. The site lies 190m to the north of the postulated site of a double moat (NHER 16212), but in many ways the features described here are more moat-like in appearance, being more substantial and with a more regular layout. At the same time, as for the site to the south, the ditches are difficult to distinguish with any certainty from the complex drainage earthworks visible at both sites and in the surrounding area (and not mapped by the NMP). Cropmarks of field boundaries and enclosures to the northwest (NHER 54640), however, which look less like drainage features, do attest to the presence of former medieval to post medieval enclosures and perhaps settlement.
The postulated moat is incomplete in plan but is broadly rectangular in shape and measures approximately 81m by 70m. Later aerial photographs indicate that the site appears to have been re-landscaped and it is not clear whether any of the earthworks still survive.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 16 June 2011.