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Hawkers Hall

Has been described as a Rejected Timber Castle (Ringwork)

There are earthwork remains

Name	Hawkers Hall
Alternative Names
Historic Country	Norfolk
Modern Authority	Norfolk
1974 Authority	Norfolk
Civil Parish	Redenhall With Harleston

Ordnance Survey maps have described a 'moat' on this site for over a hundred years. Site visits in the 1980s confirmed a circular moat and mound, as well as a number of linear water filled features, and a motte and bailey was suggested. However, work in the early 1990s destroyed the mound and infilled one of the larger linear features, and it is thought that the mound represented just the spoil from the ditches. Metal detecting on the site has recovered only one Late Saxon coin. (Norfolk HER)

Gatehouse Comments

Can be rejected on weakness of topographical evidence. According to Blomefield Hawker's Manor (Which may well be this moat) was held, directly from the king, 'by the grand serjeanty of keeping a goshawk for the King's use, and carrying it every year to the King at his Majesty's cost.' This is an early moat, probably pre-Conquest in origin.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

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

390912

County Historic Environment Record

www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?MNF11100

OS Map Grid Reference	TM251847
Latitude	52.4139709472656
Longitude	1.30931997299194
Eastings	625120
Northings	284710