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Redditch Heritage Moons Moat

arrangement but its function was not discovered. A silver Edward II penny (1307-1327)
was found here.

More dressed sandstone blocks were found on the red marl surface indicating further
rooms of a building. An area of rough stone between the building and the moat was
interpreted as an outside yard.

A section across the southern sloping edge suggested that the site had been surrounded
by a sandstone wall. A large quantity of 14th century cooking pot sherds were found in
this area and a number of post-holes.

Much of the northern section of the site was also covered with cobblestones. A interesting
find from this area was a small chest key probably of 15th century date. From this area,
for some reason, a causeway had been built across the moat during the 18th or 19th
century. Probably to access the site to take away the stone and other materials for use
somewhere else. Under this causeway, as well as a quantity of 18th century pottery, was
a medieval fig-shaped pewter spoon, which must have got mixed into the later layers
during construction of the causeway.

An example of the dressed sandstone block walls found during excavations suggesting
this was more tht a poor farmhouse but a higher status building

Lots of broken roofing tiles and fragments of red sandstone were uncovered on the
eastern side of the island which suggested an attempt at leveling after building materials
had been robbed out of the site. Underneath this area was found the top section of a
fine chamfered masonry structure of uncertain function, made of red and white sandstone
which had been re-used from another building.

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