Monument record 393/1 - Northwood's Farm

Mutilated moated site, ditch with average depth of 1.5m. Interior level and grass covered. Farmer reports construction of causeway in c.1909 and of dredging and dumping in the area of the moat itself (1). David Wilson, University of Keele, reports on seven seasons of excavation covering c.2/3rds of what survived of the platform. Farmer cleared out two arms of moat and used spoil to level the platform. Site possibly originates in late C12 and certainly C13 and may have begun as a grange of Combermere Abbey. Hall of earthbound posts, except in last phase when on cobble foundations. Oven within separate kitchen also found. Lots of medieval pot from late C12 onwards, and evidence to show house moved to present site in C18 (2).

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, Waggott T 1964 SJ64SW2 (Index). SCH2487.

<2> Staffordshire Archaeological Studies, 1997, Excavation of a Medieval Moated Site at Northwoods Farm, Dodcott-cum-Wilkesley, Cheshire, Wilson 1997 (Article in Monograph). SCH4732.