Monument record 1946 - Moat to SE of Saighton camp

Cheshire Historic Environment Record, 1989, Jill Collens' Aerial Photographs, 6.0584 (Aerial Photograph). SCH9711.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ46SW6 1986 (Index). SCH2487.

Site visit dated 22/05/1954:- 'The width of the moat varies from 7.0m to 10.0m and the depth from 0.8m to 2.0m. All sides except the NE contain water. The enclosed area is tree planted with no traces of internal buildings. Access to the enclosed area is by causeway at the east corner but this may be modern. There is another possible entrance at the west corner the moat here being a narrow ditch.'

Site visit dated 26/08/1959:- 'Situated in flat countryside the moat consists of a ditched enclosure, approximately square in shape with sides averaging about 7.0m in length. It is now dry except for the SW and SE sides where the bed of the ditch is marshy. The moat averages 1.7m in depth and the NE side also has a fragmentary outer bank measuring 3.0m in width and 0.6m in external height. At the eastern angle the inner scarp of the ditch is incomplete; but this is probably due to a later mutilation. The W angle has been partially filled in, it having been used as a rubblish dump for the adjoining Army Camp. Some trenching and other mutilations within this enclosure appear to be the results of military activities. The site is thickly covered with trees and undergrowth and no traces of internal habitation were found.'

Site visit dated 26/07/1964:- 'The moat is completely dry. Published survey (25" 1960) revised.'

Site visit dated 05/03/1976:- No changle to condition.

Site visit dated 13/02/1986:- 'The 'fragmentary outer bank'... appears to be no more than the residual ground between the ditch of the moat and the cutting for a modern pond on the E side. No trace of an outer bank is evident on the other three sides. At present the W and S sides hold water. Published survey (1:2500) Revised.'

<2> Chester Archaeological Society, Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society, Simpson F 1908 14/107 (Journal/Periodical). SCH1595.

Mentioned with 3 other empty moats within a little more than a mile of Huntington Hall. 'No record is left of the domiciles that they formerly encircled'.

<3> Wilson D et al, 1973-1986, Moated Sites Research Group Records (Paper Archive). SCH2205.