Stoke Golding; The Moats

Has been described as a Questionable Fortified Manor House

There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains

NameStoke Golding; The Moats
Alternative Names
Historic CountryLeicestershire
Modern AuthorityLeicestershire
1974 AuthorityLeicestershire
Civil ParishStoke Golding

In 1931 a mound 7' high and 25' in diameter, situated within a rectangular earthwork, was excavated. Fragments of a rim and three enamelled escutcheons of a hanging bowl were recovered. A C7th date was suggested. The mound was retained as a prospect mound.

Extract from Scheduled Monument description:

In the northern part of the monument are the earthwork remains of an Anglo-Saxon burial mound (a hlaew). It stands approximately 2m high and is 14m in diameter. Although no longer visible at ground level, a ditch, from which material was quarried during the construction of the hlaew, surrounds the mound. This has become infilled over the years but survives as a buried feature, approximately 3m wide. The mound was partly excavated in the 1930s and pottery fragments and the enamelled escutcheons from a 7th century hanging bowl were recovered.

Pastscape describes this site as an Anglo-Saxon burial mound, "The monument includes the earthwork remains of an Anglo-Saxon burial mound (a hlaew). It stands approximately 2 metres high and is 14 metres in diameter. Although no longer visible at ground level, a ditch, from which material was quarried during the construction of the hlaew, surrounds the mound. This has become infilled over the years but survives as a buried feature 3 metres wide. The mound was partly excavated in the 1930s and pottery fragments and the enamelled escutcheons from a 7th century hanging bowl were recovered. Scheduled." (Leicestershire and Rutland HER record MLE2903)

Gatehouse Comments

Site alternatively described as 'Fortified Manor' , 'tumulus' or 'Fish pond', or was possibly all three. PastScape record a hlaew (Anglo-Saxon burial mound) at SP39699703 and a medieval farmstead at SP39739694. The Leicestershire and Rutland HER record MLE2905 suggests some of the earthworks are C16/C17 garden earthworks. The medieval farmstead may well represent the manorial centre and seems to have continued as a high status house at least into the C17. However 'The Moats' seem to be fishponds and don't represent a defensive scheme and there seems no evidence the medieval manor house was fortified.

- Philip Davis

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceSP396969
Latitude52.5692291259766
Longitude-1.41541004180908
Eastings439600
Northings296900
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Books

  • Hartley, Robert F., 2008, The Medieval Earthworks of South-West Leicestershire Hinckley and Bosworth (Leicestershire Museums Archaeological Fieldwork Monograph 2) p. 63-64 (plan)
  • Cantor, Leonard, 2003, The Scheduled Ancient Monument of Leicestershire and Rutland (Leicester: Kairos Press) p. 25, 61
  • Wall, C., 1907, 'Ancient Earthworks' in Page, Wm, (ed), VCH Leicestershire Vol. 1 p. 270 online copy

Other

  • McAree, D., 2010, Archaeological watching brief on land at Park House, Stoke Golding, Leicestershire