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Monument Number 346209
Hob Uid: 346209
Location : Northamptonshire Corby Rockingham
Grid Ref : SP8700090900
Summary : Two ditches at Rockingham Castle. These are shown on a map of 1615 as a continuous feature. Their function is unclear, although one has since been widened to form a pond. They have previously been interpreted as a moat.
More information : 'Moats' (SP 870909 and 871910), lie 450 m. SE of the castle, on the edge of the present park, on Boulder Clay at 130 m. above OD. On a map of 1615 these features, which are now separated by the modern drive to the castle, are shown joined together. The earthwork known as the Bottom Moat lies NE of the drive and consists of a sub- rectangular area completely surrounded by a water-filled ditch some 2 m. deep. To the SW the so-called Top Moat is no more than a long ditch which widens to form a pond near its NE end. No date or function can be assigned to these features. (1)

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Source Number : 1a
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Vol(s) : 9, 1974

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Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Medieval
Monument End Date : 1540
Monument Start Date : 1066
Monument Type : Ditch, Moat
Evidence : Earthwork, Conjectural Evidence

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Post Medieval
Monument End Date : 1901
Monument Start Date : 1540
Monument Type : Ditch, Pond, Moat
Evidence : Earthwork, Conjectural Evidence

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External Cross Reference Number : SP 89 SE 35
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Monument Number 346209