Medieval moat at Great Totham Hall, Church Road (EHER 8201)

The remains of a moat surrounding Great Totham Hall.

Moated site, possibly a deserted medieval settlement (see EHER 82267). <1> A moat formerly surrounded Great Totham Hall, (which is of 17th century and later date, see EHER 38880). <2> September 1976. Field survey. The hall stands within the north-west angle of a near square moat which is situated on a slight south slope, and fed by springs. It drains from the south angle. The moat, now comprising only the north-east, south-east and south-west arms measures overall 100.0m across with arms averaging 11.0m wide by 1.5m deep. Only the south-east and south-west arms are waterfilled. To the north-east of the house the moat can be traced as a depression in pasture. Published 1:2500 survey revised. <3> <4> Copy of OS plan card in the EHER. <5> Church, hall and parsonage only are shown on the Chapman and Andre map of 1777. <6> See also <7>. Site shown on two aerial photographs in the EHER. <8> <9> Incomplete moat, 100m square. <10> Sketch plan on back of Medieval Settlement Research Group (MSRG) card. <11> Moat (NR). <12> A medieval coin hoard which had been buried circa 1360 was found in 1875 in the moat at Great Totham Hall. Later most of the coins were lost but three silver coins from France survived. <13> Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import.