More information : [TQ 71563924] Moats [NR] (1)
Double concentric moats at Share Farm, Horsmonden. The site is further strengthened by its being placed within the fork of two streams which almost enclose it. The strongly defensive nature of the site suggests a possible late-Saxon date, Scheduled. (2,3,4)
A homestead moat, as described above, now dry, but well preserved. It can be compared in plan, though it is smaller, with the 14th c. fortified manor house site of La Mote near Iden, Rye [Sussex 32 SW 1] There seems to be nothing to suggest that it is Saxon. Resurveyed at 1:2500. (5)
TQ 715393. A moat at Share Farm, Horsmonden is listed in the County checklist of moated sites in Kent - December 1979. (6)
General listing. (7)
An exceptionally good example of a medieval homestead most, with two complete concentric moats, (with entrance causeway on the west) and the streams forming a third, for which the western back water has clearly been deliberately widened. The inner ditches are now dry. Situated on an open meadow and perfectly preserved. Some cottages stood within the moat in the 18th century. (8)
TQ 715392 Scheduled listing Kent 138. (9)
Listed as the site of a strong house by Cathcart King. (10) |