ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



Layham (Ixxxi, 5). — Fragments of one side 

 of a moat lie to the south-west of the village, 2 J 

 miles south from Hadleigh. 



Letheringham (Iviii, 12). — A strong quad- 

 rangular moat, fed by the River Deben flowing 

 close to its western side, is on the site of Lether- 

 ingham Hall, 2 miles north-west from Wickham 

 Market. 



A wide moat surrounding a very small oblong 

 area lies to the south of the village. 



LiNSTEAD Magna (xxvii, 14). — A complicated 

 system of moating may be seen at Linstead 

 Hall, 4 miles south-west by west from Hales- 

 worth. An oblong moat has been equally 

 divided, and the traverse in part remains ; ponds 

 are on the north and the east, and near the 

 south-eastern angle another moat of smaller 

 size has a pond at one corner. 



Little Bradley (Ixi, 4). — An oblong moat 

 with one corner convex and another concave is 

 at Norley Moat Farm, south of Hobbles Green, 

 5 miles north-east from Haverhill. 



Little Finborough (Ivi, 13). — At Moat 

 Farm, 4 miles south-west from Stowmarket, is a 

 moat of rhombic plan, perfect but for a small 

 mutilation on the north-eastern side. 



Little Glemham (lix, 11). — West of the 

 village, and 2J miles south-west from Wickham 

 Market, the right angle of a broad moat remains 

 at Moat Farm. 



Little Saxham (xliv, 9.) — The moat at 

 Dairy Farm — 4 miles south-west by west from 

 Bury St. Edmunds — is of elaborate plan. The 

 old hall appears to have stood between two areas, 

 each of them are three parts surrounded by 

 water ; the eastern side, which would have 

 determined whether the two moats here mingled 

 in one, or whether a third moat defended this side, 

 has gone. In the obtuse angle formed by the 

 joining of the two moats on the western side, 

 the waters spread into a lake and contain a small 

 island. Bishop Hervey suggested that these 

 were Saxon entrenchments as opposed to the 

 Danes at Den ham Castle. 



Little Stonham (xlvii, 13). — At Westwood 

 Hall, 4 miles north-east from Stowmarket, the 

 eight fragments of moats indicate four separate 

 inclosures. 



Little Thurlow (Ixi, 7). — ' The Island ' 

 is a small square tract of land surrounded by a 

 moat, north-west of the village 3^ miles north 

 from Haverhill. 



Little Waldingfield (Ixxiii, i and 2). — 

 At Nether Hall, north-west of Humble Grove, 

 4^ miles north-east from Sudbury, is a portion 

 of a square moat. 



Little Welnetham (liv, 4). — Opposite sides 

 of a small moat lie south of Parsonage Lane, 

 3^ miles south-east from Bury St. Edmunds. 



Little Wratting (Ixx, 4). — At Great 

 Wilsey's Farm, i mile north-east from Haverhill, 

 is a quadrangular moat. 



Long Melford (Ixiii, 15). — Kentwell Hall, 

 an ideal example of an Elizabethan house, 

 4 miles north from Sudbury, stands within a 

 large oblong moat with deeply cut banks. On 

 the north is another long stretch of moat which 

 formerly inclosed a very large area, and between 

 the two is a fish-pond. 



Long Melford (Ixiii, 16). — At Ford Hall, 

 Bridge Street, is a mutilated square moat. 



Long Melford (Ixxii, 2). — At Parsonage 

 Farm, west of Cranmore Hills, an oblong moat 

 lies close to the eastern bank of the River Glem, 

 from which one narrow channel supplies the 

 moat with water at the northern angle, while 

 another carries the overflow back to the river 

 from the western angle. 



Market Weston (xxiv, 5). — Near the site 

 of Weston Hall, south-east of the village, 11^ 

 miles north-east from Bury St. Edmunds, are two 

 sides of a rectangular moat. 



Mellis (xxv, 13). — At Mellis Hall, 3 miles 

 west from Eye, are extensive divisional moats. 

 The most perfect is of oblong plan, from which 

 stretching in a north-easterly direction are various 

 fragments which would seem to have inclosed 

 three distinct areas, one continuous water-trench 

 on the south-east running the whole length of 

 the various works. 



Another large quadrangular moat surrounds 

 the rectory. 



Mellis (xxxv, 4). — In Moatyard Plantation 

 south-west of the village, 4^ miles west from 

 Eye, is a square moat with a stream on the western 

 side connecting it with the fragment of another. 



Mendham (xvii, 13). — At Oakfield Farm, 

 west of Weston House, 2^ miles south-east by 

 east from Harleston, are three parts of an oblong 

 moat. 



South-east of the last are the remains of a 

 rectangular moat with an extension towards the 

 north. 



Mendlesham (xlvi, 4). — A fragment of an 

 irregular moat is at Potter's Farm, 6 miles south- 

 west from Eye, and south-east of another of the 

 same name in the adjoining parish. 



Mendlesham (xlvii, i), — About half of a 

 rectangular moat and other water-trenches are at 

 Mendlesham Lodge, 5 miles north-east from 

 Stowmarket. 



Portions of two adjoining square moats at 

 Poplar Farm are in the same parish. 



Mendlesham (xlvii, 5). — The site of the old 

 hall is almost surrounded by an oblong moat, 

 the short north side having been levelled. 



Another large rectangular moat is immedi- 

 ately to the east of St. Mary's Church. 



Metfield (xvii, 13). — On each side of the 

 vicarage — 3 miles south-east from Harleston — 

 are fragments of a moat. That on the west is 

 a right angle and portions of two sides ; that on 

 the east is the greater part of one of irregular 

 plan. 



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