The primary purpose of this site is to document the walls of the Moated Manor site at Scadbury.
Little is known about the original 12th century building, but we have evidence to show that it was rebuilt in brick in 14th century. It was partially demolished in the 17th century and then re-imagined as a garden folly in the early 20th century.
The State of the Brickwork
ODAS was awarded the license to work at the overgrown and abandoned site in 1986. During 2011 – 2012, the walls and features of the fully excavated site were photographed. Since then, various works to conserve the brickwork and masonry have taken place and a few sections of wall have been repaired. In other places there has been deterioration due to vandalism or natural weathering.
We will attempt to answer these questions:
- How do the structures that we see today relate to the various phases of the site’s history?
- Were medieval bricks re-purposed for use in the 1920’s construction?
About this Database
The island site is divided into areas and within each area are structural elements such as walls, steps, hearth, pillar etc. For some of these such as a wall, there are three faces (eg. Top, North facing, South facing) which need to be recorded separately. Therefore each component part of a structure is assigned a context number. These structural components are inspected and their condition at a particular time noted. Using the historic photographs from 2011/12 an initial inspection record can be assigned to each component.
To allow the brickwork to be studied, samples of the structural components can be recorded.