Monument record 0010600000 - BRILL

Dimensions - Length 120m, Height 2m.
Plan Form - Linear.
SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENT. STRUCTURE C 50M N OF CHURCH BETWEEN NGR'S. VARIOUSLY DATED TO IRON AGE, SAXON, MEDIEVAL & CIVIL WAR PERIODS. IN 1972 120M OF BANK SURVIVED, UP TO 2M HIGH; PART OF DITCH WAS VISIBLE & HOLDING WATER (B6).
IN 1973 PART OF VISIBLE DITCH FILLED WITH MATERIAL FROM E END OF BANK (B7).
VISIT TO NEARBY GARDEN BY MICHAEL FARLEY ESTABLISHED A CLEAR SLOPE FROM HIGHER LAND FORMING MOST OF THE EAST OF THE GARDEN. LOOKS VERY PROBABLE THAT THIS WAS THE FORMER COURSE OF THE DITCH AND ALSO MATCHES THE CURVE OF THE HIGH STREET (B17).
Ground penetrating radar survey of 26 transverses on public access land in the centre carried out in April 2014 by Stratascan as part of a research project to locate the course and extent of the earthworks. See report for detail (B20).
Geophysical surveys carried out by Bartlett-Clark Consultancy in July 2012 in King's Field and the garden of The Old Rectory confirm that the earthworks extend across the King’s Field from the extant embankment at the east of the field, and continue into the Rectory garden. Various linear and rectilinear resistance anomalies suggest that buried wall footings may also be present, particularly in the south and west of the King’s Field. The most convincing of these is the outline of a possible large rectangular structure in the south of King's Field, with four other possible rectangular structures to the east, north east and west, and another outside the earthworks to the north. Se report for detail (B21).