Monument record 0034503000 - HOGSHAW

Dimensions - Length 50m, Width 40m.
Traces of apparently double moated site (B5).
According to Lambourne said to have stood within large moated enclosure perhaps that shown at SP 7374 2258 described by RCHM as a double moated site. Moat now dry; enclosed area raised & levelled above surrounding ground level. No trace of structures (B10).
Scheduled in June 2013. See Scheduling documents for detail (B15).

A medieval moated site is visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as earthworks and was mapped as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located in fields S of Hogshaw Farm and centred at SP 73713 22594, a moat ditch is between 6 and 11 metres wide: the NNE facing side is 58 metres long aligned WNW-ESE: the ESE facing side is 64.5 metres long aligned NNE-SSW: the SSW facing side 51 metres long aligned WNW-ESE. The WNW facing side and partly encloses a rectangular platform about 60 x 43 metres. The ditch on the WNW facing side is a ditch or drain that now forms the boundary with the field to the west. However, the 1813 Ordnance Surveyors Drawing suggests this was formerly part of a much larger body of water. The moat itself is not depicted in 1813. A leat runs south from the centre of the south arm of the moat, connecting it to two fishponds to the south. The earthworks have been interpreted as a double ditched moat. About 17 metres to the E there is indeed a linear ditch about 56 x 8 metres aligned NNE-SSW. However, there appears to be no linking ditch system to the moat ditch and it seem more likely that the feature is a fishpond, rather than a second moat ditch (16-17).