Monument record SHY 001 - Moat, unoccupied, square, wet, part brick revetted. Scheduled

Moat, unoccupied, square, wet, part brick revetted. Choked with weeds but in good condition. 300 yards SW of All Saints Church, near Shelley Hall (S1)(S2).
May 2001: Scheduled (S3).

Trial holes were hand-dug on a moated platform to the rear of Shelley Hall, in connection with the making of a television programme in the Lost Gardens series. These were designed to test anomalies shown on a geophysical survey previously carried out by Stratascan Ltd (Fig. 11 ). The trenches revealed the probable presence of Tudor garden features consisting of a gravel/shingle path around the edge of the moat and a central shingle/gravel path aligned with the bridge. A concentration of white chalky material and numerous peg-tile fragments at the approximate centre of the platform might represent the remains of structure, perhaps a dovecote. Augur holes inserted into the northern edge of the platform showed a great depth of underlying peat, suggesting that the site had been constructed in a marshy environment. Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 1999 (S4).