Belmont moated site and fishpond

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The monument is the Belmont moated site and fishpond. The site includes a five-sided island measuring up to 90m x 60m and surrounded by a rectangular waterlogged moat of widths varying between 4.5m - 30m x 1.5m deep. The moat sides are near vertical and c.1m deep to the water level. Access to the island is by a causeway on the western side. An outer bank flanks the north and much of the western arms of the moat. It measures 7m wide x 1m high adjacent to the north arm, and 4m high x 0.3m wide adjacent to the western arm. In Moat Covert, immediately north of the northern outer bank, is a rectangular waterlogged fishpond measuring some 90m x 30m x 1m deep. The site was granted to Norton Priory by Geoffrey Dutton during the reign of Henry I. It was part of a medieval monastic grange. Field names Abbey Field and Abbots Meadow are associated with the site.
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