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Small moated site with a central island. Site lies just S of Rise Hall (see AKE 010) and it is likely that this moat accommodated a timber-framed dovecote.

Bank earthworks and an unusual shaped single ditch.

Evaluation and monitoring identified a low level of activity on the site in the Iron Age period, dispersed over a broad area.

3 low banks and a shallow hollow way recorded during rapid earthwork identification survey.

Anglo Saxon and Ipswich ware pottery sherds, possible occupation of site.

Gentle mound, 0.3-0.5m high, spread to 20-25m diameter. Probably round barrow. Also further mound, also possibly round barrow.

Grade II as a timber-framed structure encased in later brick and dated ‘probably’ to the 17th century but the building is unlikely to pre-date the mid-18th century at the earliest.

Rom pottery sherds, including samian and colour coated, found below moat mound (S1).

Reference to possible Saltmarsh in Wherstead from document from 1611 Formerly recorded as WHR MISC

Bank(?) depicted on OS maps. Parish boundary bank or possibly former boundary between heath and arable.