Medieval earthworks including a dry moat. This site was initially interpreted as 'Roman intrenchments' but is now thought to be a medieval manorial site. {1}{2} The site lies within the medieval deer park at Gainsborough. It is presumably a park-keeper's house or lodge with paddocks, orchards or gardens. To the north-east is a small circular building surrounded by a ditch which is possibly a dovecote. The earthworks were destroyed between 1963 and 1967, but were depicted on early large scale Ordnance Survey sheets as comprising a large, almost square enclosure, with ditched closes on the same alignment appended to its western and southern sides. Immediately to the north-west lay a further perhaps ditched or moated platform with ancillary features, all on a slightly different alignment from the first, which may indicate a two-phased development. {3} Traces of these earthworks are visible on aerial photographs. {4}{5}{6}