
What is recorded here
Half a circle of ditch still marks the north edge of a tillage field in Morett, while the south dissolves beneath a sweeping boundary line. The enclosure faces Morret Castle and its church across gentle ground, suggesting people once lived inside or beside the ring before farming erased the rest. Cropmarks rather than stones preserve the shape, forcing imagination to complete what the soil concealed.
Located in a relatively level location (c. 82m OD) in a gently undulating landscape now characterised by tillage and pastoral farming. Sited towards the N boundary of a field currently in use for tillage purposes (Google Earth July 2023); this field has evidence of a number of cropmark features on this imagery (Google Earth August 2022 - see below). Landscape slopes very gently downwards to the NE towards a stream\former millrace associated with a water mill(s) (LA009-022----), located c. 285m to the NE, and slopes very gently upwards to the W\WNW towards a low hillock on which is sited the remains of Morret Castle (LA009-021001-), located c. 370m to the W\WNW, with Morret Church (LA009-021004-) located adjacent (c. 150m) to the S of castle site. This possible enclosure is faintly visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (August 2022) imagery of the area. It consists of a truncated subcircular feature (est. ext. dims c. 53.15m N-S x 44.8m E-W) that is defined by a ditch (est. Wth c. 2-3m) of which just over half of the N arc is visible in the above imagery. The S arc of the possible enclosure is truncated by a linear feature (possibly a former field boundary) that runs c. 250 across the field from E to W in a low sweeping arc; the S arc of this possible enclosure is not visible below this linear feature on the available imagery. No definitive evidence for an entrance gap. There is another possible enclosure(s) (LA009-066----) located c. 75m to the S\SSW within the same modern field on the Google Earth (August 2022) imagery.
Compiled by: T.J. O'Meara based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère
Uploaded on: 16/07/2023
See attached:
LA009-065----_01 Google Earth Aerial\Satellite Imagery (August 2022)
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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