Monument record 0010000000 - REDDING WICK MOATED SITE

Summary

Thirteenth century moat recorded in field survey at Redding Wick

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Archaeological Notification Area: Earthworks of Medieval moated complex at Redding Wick (DBC9178)
Scheduled Monument 1014605: MOATED SITE AND ENCLOSURES AT REDDING WICK (DBC7198)

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MOAT (13th Century - 1200 AD to 1299 AD)

Description

COMPLEX HOMESTEAD MOAT WITH RAMPARTS & OUTWORKS, IN REDDING WICK WOOD, WHICH HAS A ?LATER DITCHED BOUNDARY. SITE, ESPECIALLY CENTRE, STRONGLY DEFENDED: PROBABLY NOT LATER C13. POTTERY FROM CENTRAL AREA ?C13 (B1-7).
A deep and wide moat in Reddingwick Wood lying within other earthworks, seemingly of entirely different date. (See Plan) (B1)
1233 REF TO LAND, CHAPEL & CHANTRY OF ROGER DE WYMBERVILE AT 'LA RUDINGE' (?REDDING) (B8).
SCHEDULED SAM 27157 (B6).
Earthwork survey by Dan Secker in summer 2003, includes interpreted plan of remains (B10).

(SP 916020) Moat (NR) Earthwork (NR) (B11).
Possible additional earthwork visible at SP 91660215 (B12).
A sub-rectangular moat, now dry, centred at SP 91720203 and situated upon level wooded ground. It measures, overall, 80.m E-W by 60.0m N-S. The arms are 8.0m wide and some 2.0m deep. The interior bank is 6.0m wide, up to 1.3m high on the inner side and 3.0m high above the base of the moat. The external bank averages 7.0m wide and 0.8m high. The original causewayed entrance, midway in the W side is protected by the heightening of the inner bank and by a broad outer bank, 9.0m wide, 1.0m high fronted by a weak outer ditch 4.0m wide and 0.5m deep which is connected to an extension of the N arm. No trace of buildings was found within the interior. The moat is linked by low baulks to an incomplete roughly oval enclosure of bank and ditch, about 1 hectare in area which forms an apparently contemporary annexe to the N and W of the moat proper. This oval enclosure is apparently further connected in the SW to a rectilinear enclosure of some 2 hectares which may, considering the modern form of its bounding banks, be of much later date. Published 1:2500 survey revised (B13).
Five 13th century sherds were dug out of the moat in 1972 at SP 91720204. In Bucks Co Museum Acc No 73.74 (B4).

This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Sources (15)

---SBC18967 Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1948. RAF Vertical Aerial Photograph, 1948: Run 143, frame 3304. SP917030. Yes.
<1>SBC20350 Bibliographic reference: A Hadrian Allcroft. 1908. Earthwork of England. pp471-472.
<2>SBC20466 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1912. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume 1. Volume 1. p173.
<3>SBC4826 Verbal communication: Mike Farley. 1972. FARLEY M E (BCM) 26 SEPT 1972 FIELD VISIT.
<4>SBC4813 Verbal communication: Mike Farley. 1974. FARLEY M E (BCM) 1974.
<5>SBC10557 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. 1955. OS FIELD INVESTIGATOR 1955 ANTIQUITY NO. SP 90 SW 08.
<6>SBC23986 Scheduling record: English Heritage. 1996. SCHEDULING LISTS OF INSPECTORATE OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS.
<7>SBC3448 Cartographic materials: M Dearnaly and V Gregory (CMAG). 1982. 1:200 AND 1:500 SURVEY PLAN AND 1:50 SECTION OF EARTHWORKS. Plan & profile. Draughting film. 1:200; 1:500; 1:50.
<8>SBC6756 Article in serial: J G Jenkins (editor). 1938. CARTULARY OF MISSENDEN ABBEY PART 1, IN BUCKS RECORD SOCIETY 2. Vol 2. pp39, 83, 174.
<9>SBC3527 Unpublished document: Margaret Dixon. 1996. AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF EARTHWORK SITES AROUND GREAT MISSENDEN. pp53-61.
<10>SBC20987 Graphic material: Daniel Secker. 2003. Survey of earthworks at 'Overbury', Redding Wick.
<11>SBC27454 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1960. Ordnance Survey Map (6" /1960). Map.
<12>SBC29345 Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 1948. RAF/CPE/UK/2483 3298-9 10.3.48.
<13>SBC29346 Verbal communication: A S Phillips. 1972. Field Investigators Comments - F1 ASP 15-FEB-1972.
<14>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE). Insert 1997; Update 2010.

Location

Grid reference	Centred SP 9164 0206 (310m by 300m)
Civil Parish	GREAT MISSENDEN, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

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Mar 17 2026 1:54PM