Merryborough Farm Moated site
SM 99541710 (centred) (revised from SM995170)
This moat is located in a valley bottom, a short distance to the west of Merryborough Farm.
The monument measures overall 58m square.
The inner platform measures approximately 30m square within an inner bank which is now spread up to 6m wide. The inner scarp is, from ground viewing, discontinuous, but has a maximum height of 0.8m, while the outer scarp rises to 1m above the bottom of the surrounding ditch. The ditch is most clear on the west and north where it has a width of up to 4m. These lengths of ditch are wet and characterised by rush growth. The stream which fed the ditch entered it at the south-west corner and left at the north-west corner. The outer edge of the ditch is occupied by a counterscarp bank up to 1m high and spread to 6m wide, though in places its outer scarp is indistinct.
visited DKL 27.2.96
RCAHMW AP965115/53