Monument record 0018002000 - NW OF ASTON MULLINS FARM

Dimensions - Radius 60m.
Plan Form - Subcircular.
Sub-circular, waterfilled homestead moat has average overall diameter of 120m, moat arms being 8-10m in width. To S, moat is set into slight hill slope upon which it is situated, whilst around N side is a broad retaining bank, 12m wide, 1.5m high. Water was fed in from E side via a short right-angled projection off main moat & escaped to river from NW side. Interior under permanent pasture & no trace of building to be seen (B6).
Large moat well preserved with small causeway, stone revetted & still holds water. Moat enclosed by bank on N/NE side for ?flood protection and/or possibly controlling water level in moat - there is a sluice on bank. Original Aston Mullins farm stood on site, the present Aston Mullins being built within living memory (B7)

A moated site of medieval date is visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as extant earthworks and levelled earthworks and were mapped as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located approximately 800m north west of Aston Mullins House, Dinton-with-Ford and Upton, and centred at SP 476267 208557. The moated site is on the south side of the Cuttle Brook, which was likely the source of the water supply for the moat, and has further earthworks of shrunken settlement and ridge and furrow field systems surrounding it. The moat is almost hexagonal and measures 98x120m across with a water channel joining from the Cuttle Brook on the east and leaving on the north side to return straight in to the brook and another on the western side also to return to the brook, via the second moat/subrectangular fishpond to the west. The moat has another water channel extending to the south which has been incorporated in to later field boundaries and drainage ditches. The interior platform of the moat measures 64m across and no clear features can be seen on the lidar visualisation. Buildings are shown at this location on the Ordnance Surveyors’ Drawing of Aylesbury and earthworks to the south of the moat could be the remains of further buildings shown on the same map. None of these are present by the time of the Epoch 1 map. The earthworks were not clear enough to map individual features on the moat; modern land use is pasture. (9-