ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



Barsham (ix, lo). — The remains of a moat 

 at Barsham Hall comprise about half of the 

 original. It is situated by the side of a stream 

 from which the water was obtained ; it is nearly 

 2 miles west of Beccles. 



Barton Mills (xxi, 13). — Three parts of a 

 narrow moat are extant at Barton Hall, nearly 



1 mile south-east from Mildenhall. 

 Battisford (Ixv, 3). — A large moat is at St. 



John's Manor House, 2^ miles west by south 

 from Needham Market. 



Baylham (Ixv, 8). — Baylham Hall Moat, 



2 miles south from Needham Market, appears to 

 have inclosed two lateral sites with ponds on the 

 eastern side, but it is now levelled to a great extent. 



Half a mile west of the latter is the double 

 moat of Taston Hall ; a small strong moat is 

 surrounded by a narrow outer one except on the 

 south-eastern side, where the earlier moat is in- 

 corporated with the larger. 



Beccles (ix, 10). — Roos Hall, the 16th-cen- 

 tury manor-house of the Roos family, surrounded 

 by a moat of moderate width, is situated to the 

 west of the town. 



Bedfield (xlviii, 7). — At Bedfield House, 

 Bedfield Little Green, 3^ miles north-west from 

 Framlingham, are three parts of a quadrangular 

 moat. 



One mile south of Bedfield, at Pipe's Farm, 

 are the remains of the house-moat and another 

 of minor strength which formerly surrounded 

 the grounds. 



Bedfield (xlviii, 6). — At Bedfield Hall is a 

 small moat ; extending to the west it forms another 

 moat originally inclosing a larger area. 



Bedingfield (xxxvi, 12). 'Moated Yards,' 



3 miles south-east from Eye, is an oblong area 

 covered by wood and surrounded by a well- 

 formed moat. 



Bedingfield (xlvii, 4). — At Bedingfield House, 

 I mile south by west from the village, three parts 

 of an irregular moat remain. 



Bedingfield (xlviii, i). — Bedingfield Hall, 

 1^ miles east from the latter, has a strong and 

 well-defined moat inclosing a large area. Except 

 for its eastern side, which curves outwards, it would 

 be oblong in plan. Another rectangular piece 

 of water within the area, called a fish-pond, is 

 probably a portion of an inner moat. 



Another moat in this parish is at Flemings 

 Hall, ^ of a mile north-west of the last-men- 

 tioned. It is an extensive oblong moat divided 

 into two square areas by a traverse of water. 



Ben HALL (lix, 8). — Manor Farm has a fairly 

 perfect quadrangular moat of varying width, the 

 northern side being 20 ft. wide, while at the 

 south-west it is 40 ft. The inlet is at the north- 

 east angle. 



Beyton (xlv, 10). — At Brook Farm, 5 miles 

 cast by south from Bury St. Edmunds, is a per- 

 fect oblong moat of considerable width, the inner 

 side of which is of brick masonry. 



Blundeston (iv, 10). — At Blundeston Hall, 

 3 miles north-west from Lowestoft, is a quad- 

 rangular moat with a cutting at the north-eastern 

 angle connecting it with a stream. 



BoxTED (Ixiii, 5). — A moat, irregular both in 

 plan and width, is at Moat Farm, Fenstead End, 

 7 miles north-west from Sudbury. 



BoxTED (Ixiii, 9). — Boxted Hall is surrounded 

 by a strong moat of great breadth ; the inner site 

 is oblong, but the external bank assumes an oval 

 form. From the southern side a cutting, 50 ft. 

 wide, extends some 300 ft. in a south-easterly 

 direction to a large pond containing two islets. 



Bradfield Combust (liv, 12). — This parish 

 is also known as Bradfield-Manger. The plan 

 of a strong square moat which formerly sur- 

 rounded a grange of the Abbot of Bury may yet 

 be traced in Bradfield Park, 5 miles south-east 

 from Bury. 



Bradfield Combust (Iv, 9). — At Sutton Hall, 

 south-east of the village, is a quadrangular moat, 

 the south side of which is in the neighbouring 

 parish of Cockfield. 



Bradfield St. Clare (Iv, 5). — On the east 

 of St. Clare's Church, i^ miles east of Bradfield 

 Combust, is a curiously irregular moat ; the 

 eastern side is straight and narrow, but the 

 southern and western sides broaden in places to 

 30 ft. and 60 ft. 



Another moat of quadrangular form, but 

 mutilated on the western side, is at St. Clare's 

 Hall, half a mile east from the last named. 



Brampton (xviii, 14). — South-east of Bramp- 

 ton station, 4^ miles south from Beccles, three 

 moats are at Brampton Hall. The farm-house 

 representative of the old hall stands within a 

 rectangular moat, with banks 4 ft. above the 

 water, and the entrance on the west. The over- 

 flow of water finds an exit at the south-east 

 angle and flows into a ditch which, to a certain 

 degree, formed a protection to the orchard. 



To the west of this moat a large irregular piece 

 of water, in an artificial excavation, surrounds a 

 small island, standing 6 ft. above the water, with 

 the connecting causeway on the north. 



Still further westwards a circular moat 8 ft. 

 wide cinctures a plot of land 90 ft. in diameter, 

 and 9 ft. above the water level. 



Brampton (xviii, 15). — At Potash Farm, 

 i^ miles north-west from the village, are three 

 sides of a narrow moat. 



Half a mile to the south-east of the latter, at 

 Old Potash Farm, the four corners of a quad- 

 rangular moat remain ; otherwise it has been 

 destroyed. 



At the rectory, east of the last named, are 

 fragments of another moat. 



Bredfield (Ixvii, 8). — Three miles north of 

 Woodbridge is an angular cutting containing 

 water at Moat Farm, and only from the name 

 may this be recognized as the fragment of a 

 moat. 



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