NHER 7273 (Monument record) - 19th/20th century Dykewood House, and possible earthwork remains of medieval moat

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Summary

Dykewood House, a late 19th to early 20th century house, is supposedly the site of a medieval manor house. Part of a possible medieval moat survives as an earthwork on its southern side; this is depicted on Ordnance Survey maps and is visible on visualised lidar data from a survey flown in 2017. It may, however, merely be a pond.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF91NW
Civil Parish BEESTON WITH BITTERING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

Dykewood House - a farmstead supposed to have been an ancient manor house, but no information can be obtained as to the date of the building, this is noted on (S1).
Ordnance Survey Antiquity, moated.
A. Rogerson.

July 2005.
(S2) shows a house surrounded by a moat like feature on two sides.
D. Robertson (NLA), 29 July 2005.

September 2023. Wendling Beck and Fransham Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AIM) Project.
The remains of the supposed medieval moat, described above, is visible as an earthwork on visualised lidar data (S3). It is also depicted on 19th century and modern Ordnance Survey maps. It consists of a single arm to the south of Dykewood House; to the west is a narrower drain and an oval pond (neither has been mapped). There is little evidence either way to suggest whether this is part of a moat or merely a pond, as suggested in the Historic England research record (S4). The latter states that Dykewood House itself is of late 19th/early 20th century date.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 21 September 2023.

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Medieval. Beeston with Bittering.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 91 NW 15 [2].
  • <S2> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1995. Ordnance Survey Digital Maps - Landline Edition 1995.
  • <S3> LIDAR Airborne Survey: Environment Agency. Environment Agency LIDAR Data. National LIDAR Programme TF91NW DTM 1m 17 to 24-NOV-2017.
  • <S4> Digital Dataset: Historic England. Historic England Research Record (formerly National Record for the Historic Environment; formerly National Monument Record). UNIQUE IDENTIFIER: 358763, TF 91 NW 15.

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Record last edited

Sep 21 2023 2:38PM

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