Monument record MLI50291 - MOATED SITE NEAR GLENTWORTH GRANGE

Summary

MOATED SITE NEAR GLENTWORTH GRANGE

Type and Period (4)

  • (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Full Description

IN 1964 HARPER REPORTED THAT THE MOAT HAD BEEN FILLED IN AND WAS PLOUGHED OVER. NO EVIDENCE OF A BUILDING SITE WAS SEEN IN THE PLOUGH. {1} MOATED SITE VISITED NOVEMBER 1972 BY NICHOLAS MOORE AND JOHN MARJORAM. LARGELY PLOUGHED OUT. ONLY MODERN BUILDING MATERIALS ON THE SURFACE. {2} THE MOATED SITE LAY IN THE FAR SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE WRAY'S DEER PARK AND MAY HAVE BEEN THE PARK KEEPER'S LODGE. IT WAS PLOUGHED UP SHORTLY BEFORE 1964 AND IS NOW MARKED PRINCIPALLY BY A SPREAD OF LIMESTONE RUBBLE INTO CLAY AND STONE ROOF TILES. A FEW SCRAPS OF MEDIEVAL POTTERY WERE COLLECTED FROM THE SITE. {3}

Sources/Archives (5)

  •  Index: OS CARD INDEX. GLENTWORTH. SK 98 NW:4,1964, HARPER F R.
  •  Index: SMR FILE. GLENTWORTH. SK 98 NW:H,1972, MOORE C N AND MARJORAM J.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: P.L. Everson, C.C. Taylor and C.J. Dunn. 1991. Change and Continuity: Rural Settlement in North-West Lincolnshire. ppVIII,48,53;ARCHIVE NOTE.
  •  Map: OS. 1956. OS 6 INCH SERIES. SK 98 NW.
  •  Map: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1992-1996. National Mapping Programme. SK9287:LI.610.1.1-2,1994, .

Map

Location

Grid reference Centred SK 9291 8728 (363m by 154m)
Civil Parish GLENTWORTH, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

Related Monuments/Buildings (2)

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Record last edited

Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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