Monument record 0012901000 - NW OF VATCHES FARM

Dimensions - Length 120m, Width 110m.
Plan Form - Rectangular.
Remains of building foundations within moated space (B2).
Wide ditch now dry & much denuded (B3).
AP shows an entrance on E arm of moat. To W of moat a slightly curved bank & ditch to W. Slight traces of an outer retaining bank on S & W sides & an inner bank in SW corner. Interior is disturbed but no pattern of buildings can be recognized (B5).
Scheduled (B8).
1998 EH site visit found moat waterlogged and large oak tree on NW corner in danger of collapse (B9).

A moated site of medieval date is visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as extant earthworks and was mapped as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located at Vatches Farm, Aston Clinton and centred at SP 86535 12733. Earthworks of a moated site with a fishpond, water channels, banks and ditches that form a possible trackway leading to another earthwork site to the east, a possible homestead (see MBC47278). The subrectangular ditch is approximately 120x136m at its largest and it measures 6-16m in width. Banks are visible around the outside of the moat and on the interior and there is a platform, measuring 93x106m at its largest. To the east of the moat are subrectangular mounds of possible building platforms, water channels, and a possible trackway. A subrectangular fishpond, measuring 97x36m at its largest, is visible outside the north east corner of the moat. These earthworks are still very clear on lidar visualisations, between the A41 where it by-passes Aston Clinton and the line of Akeman Street, where it passes through Aston Clinton. Earthworks of ridge and furrow field systems are also visible around the moat and the possible homestead 400m to the east. (10-12)