Monument record MDO954 - Moat at Corscombe Court, Corscombe

McOmish, D S, Various, Field Investigators Comments DSM, F2 DSM 01-MAY-87 (Unpublished document). SDO16333.

‘The Corscombe Court group remains as described. North of the swimming pool and tennis court, a low bank aligned WSW - ENE is evident. This feature, 8m wide and 0.5 m high, extends on the east from the modern road for a distance of circa 42m. Eight metres beyond its west end there is a raised scarp aligned roughly north - south running into the arable north of the moat. This terraced feature with an east facing slope is about 5m wide and 0.6m high. At its north end it turns to the east and is truncated by the modern road. It may have defined a formal garden feature or a large shallow pond. A more extensive and precise survey of the earthwork remains is intended. Resurveyed at 1:1000, revised at 1:2500.’

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 106-107 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(4) CORSCOMBE COURT, house, barn and moat, 730 yards N.N.E. of the church. … The Moat formerly surrounded the house, but the S. side has been largely filled in.’

<2> Upton, K L, 1978, The Moated Sites of Dorset, 15 (Unpublished document). SDO14051.

‘No surrounding earthworks or fishponds were apparent and the Tithe Map (1840) does not indicate their existence. But there is a possibility that they may have been destroyed by ploughing to the west of the site and by tennis courts and landscaping to the north.’

<3> Adkins, L and Adkins, R, 1997, Report on the Archaeological Watching Brief at Corscombe Court, Dorset, June-July 1997. (Unpublished document). SDO12250.

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