Monument record FAS 027 - Former SAPPA Hatchery, Fornham All Saints

Moat, possibly medieval in date maybe related to the manor rather than the later hall.
Drainage ditches and a pond of uncertain date were found during evaluation, details (S1).

An archeological evaluation was undertaken on this site on the edge of the flood plain of the River Lark. It lies next to Fornham Hall, which is known to be the site of a medieval manor of the abbots of Bury St Edmunds. Map evidence shows that the boundary line around Fornham Hall was irregular and curving in places and it has been postulated from this that there may originally have been a moat around the hall, although there is no direct documentary evidence for one in sources dating back to 1768. However the discovery of a wide, deep, clay-lined ditch in the evaluation trench nearest the hall seems to confirm the presence of a moat which must have been filled by the 18th century (or probably earlier). Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 1999 (S2)