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Ravenstone Moat

Has been described as a Questionable Timber Castle (Motte)

There are no visible remains

Name	Ravenstone Moat
Alternative Names
Historic Country	Westmorland
Modern Authority	Cumbria
1974 Authority	Cumbria
Civil Parish	Ravenstonedale

Moated site or motte with gate. Since the manor was in the hands of absentee monastic landlords from the reign of Henry II, it seems that this site represents the pre-1150 manor house. (PastScape ref. Perriam and Robinson)

Ravenstone Moat

NY 719 045

Motte.

Higham 1976: Plan. Moated with gate '... hitherto unrecorded... since the manor was in the hands of absentee monastic landlords from the reign of Henry II, it seems that this site represents the pre-1150 manor house...'

No excavtion report found (Perriam and Robinson 1998)

Gatehouse Comments

Gatehouse feels it is questionable (i.e. doubtful) that this was the site of a motte castle. It is clearly a manorial centre of some sort but the earthworks pictured by Matthew Emmott and visible of the aerial photo look like fishponds, rather than a moat. The site needs proper investigation by a field archaeologist. If these are fishponds then they will date to after 1150 although the manorial site will have an earlier origin. Possibly Perriam and Robinson were writing about some other earthworks nearby (considerable amounts of a park pale survive to the north and some tumuli are also marked) which may now be lost to the major road embanking.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)

1390209

County Historic Environment Record

www.cumbria.gov.uk/planning-environment/countryside/historic-environment/HER.asp

OS Map Grid Reference	NY719045
Latitude	54.4347305297852
Longitude	-2.43407011032104
Eastings	371900
Northings	504500