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Dean's Carr 'moat'

Has been described as a Questionable Fortified Manor House

There are earthwork remains

Name	Dean's Carr 'moat'
Alternative Names
Historic Country	Norfolk
Modern Authority	Norfolk
1974 Authority	Norfolk
Civil Parish	Harling

This possible fortified medieval moat site was surveyed in 1980. Roman, Late Saxon, medieval and post medieval fragments of pottery were found. Now afforested. Suggest the Ordnance Survey mistook the central pond for the annexe. Ditches of the latter are very shallow, now, but ditch on south and east of oval deep, still marshy, with area inside embanked high. Central pond is a puzzle and the whole thing does not look like a moat to me (E. Rose (NAU), 27 July 1978). (Norfolk HER)

Gatehouse Comments

The multiperiod finds suggest something was here but isolated from medieval settlement and seems unlikely as medieval manorial site and questionable even as a moat. Certainly the evidence for the site being 'fortified' seems absent. However Blomefield does give tenurial history of several manors in this small parish and not all the manors he identifies can be associated with an existing house.For bringing this site to our attention Gatehouse thanks Roger Wilson.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

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

385549

County Historic Environment Record

www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?MNF6028

OS Map Grid Reference	TL969854
Latitude	52.4311485290527
Longitude	0.895070016384125
Eastings	596920
Northings	285410