Walsall Moat

In the civil parish of Walsall.
In the historic county of Staffordshire (Modern Authority of Walsall, 1974 county of West Midlands).

Very scant remains of moat of fortified C13 manor. On 1889 OS three sides of square moat shown. Excavated 1972-1975. Excavation on part of the site has revealed at least two early phases of building, followed by the construction of a moat and further rebuilding. At some date between the first occupation of the site and the formation of the moat part of the site was used for metal-working: perhaps an unmoated lodge or manor-house was temporarily converted to industrial use before being rebuilt on a more substantial scale. No precise dates for those developments have been established, but apparently by the 1380s the moated house was the lord's Walsall residence. It was presumably there that Lady Neville and two of her children lived in 1385 and 1386, when they were staying at Walsall

This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Cropmarks/slight earthworks remains.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SP00109848

PastScape number; 329462

Books

Emery, Anthony, 2000, Greater Medieval Houses Vol2 (Cambridge) p343
Salter, Mike, 1997, Castles and Moated Mansions of Staffordshire (Malvern) p62
Salter, Mike, 1993, Midlands Castles (Birmingham) p84
Currie, C.R.J., Greenslade, M.W. and Johnson, D.A., 1976, VCH Staffordshire Vol17 p170-71 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=36191
Lynam, C., 1908, in Page, Wm. (ed), VCH Staffordshire Vol1 p368

Journal Articles

1974-5, Transactions of the South Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol16 p19-53
Palliser, D.M., 1972, 'Staffordshire Castles: A Provisional List' Staffordshire Archaeology Vol1 p5-8

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Walsall Moat

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SP00109848

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