Scheduled Ancient Monument: MOATED SITE 170M SOUTH EAST OF CRANLEY HALL (30596)

The monument includes a small moated site located on a low spur to the south of Cranley Green Road. It is associated with the larger moated site at Cranley Hall which lies to the north west of it and is the subject of a separate scheduling. The moat, which is between 5m and 9m wide and contains water, surrounds a sub-rectangular island measuring approximately 25m east-west by a maximum of 18m. An outlet channel up to 5m wide and open to a depth of up to 1m issues from the south east corner of the moat, running in a curve east and north eastwards to join a field drainage system. The moated site is recorded on a map of Cranley Hall manor made in 1626 which depicts trees on the central island and a bridge across the northern arm of the moat. Originally it is likely to have contained a building or buildings, but the evidence of the map suggests that by the 17th century it was used as an orchard or a garden with ornamental trees.