Overhall Grove Moated Site and Mound, Cambridgeshire: Archaeological Investigation
Author(s): Magnus Alexander, Sarah Newsome, Matthew Bristow
This report is based upon an internal report by Historic England’s Assessment Team (now Landscape Archaeology Team) for its East of England Listing Team, which has been updated for publication. The original work was undertaken following Historic England’s South-West Cambridgeshire National Archaeological Identification Survey project (Knight et al 2018) which identified the site as having the potential for enhancement and requiring better understanding to improve its protection and management. The approach taken was to produce a series of visualisations of the publicly available Environment Agency lidar data and to use these to provide the framework for an earthwork plan, plus a description and analysis of the site. As such this was a methodological development for the Landscape Archaeology Team that has been used on several other sites since. The manorial moated site and the mound are clearly very different in nature and unrelated. The former is a substantial site that remained in use for several centuries developing over that time, the latter probably a short-term response to a short-term threat. Although not all of the questions have been resolved, the site is now much better understood and information for future management is available.
- Report Number:
- 7/2024
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 55
- Keywords:
- Medieval Methological Research Standing Building Lidar Survey Woodland Moat
