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Moated sites A moated site is defined here as an enclosure of medieval date, As yet not a great deal is known of the datespan within the usually rectilinear on plan, surrounded by a broad ditch which may medieval period of moated sites in Scotland, although they rarely or may not have been water-fi lled. A number ofproblems attend their occur outside the known areas ofAnglo-Norman penetration. Those study in Scotland and only the most convincing sites have been in England are thought to have their beginnings in the late twelfth included. For example, whilst moated sites possessed some defencentury and their rate of construction to have reached its peak sive qualities they were not essentially military in character, and between about 1250 and 1350, declining thereafter. The scant omitted from the map are those sites whose defences were developed evidence for Scotland is not inconsistent with these dates and also to the point where they are better considered to be component parts points to the seigneurial status, both secular and ecclesiastical, ofthe of timber castles; there is inevitably a degree of subjectivity in sites. The buildings which stood upon moated sites and the functions deciding when that point has been reached. Omitted too are moats which were carried out from them, therefore, would have been enclosing stone castles. To the south of the Forth identification is primarily administrative, economic and domestic. Ln this regard they further complicated by the presence of large numbers of prehistoric did not differ from estate centres which were enclosed, or enclosed rectilinear settlements which, on surface remains alone, may be only by a light stockade or wall, and which seem likely to have indistinguishable from moated sites. existed in far greater numbers, but to have left little or no discernible trace in the archaeological record. ~Shethi Old Rayne •• '-...., f ( . >"!!ilWo~~Bethelnie . ~Kinbattoch ~LOChDavan---~Montrose's Trench o ( • Fordoun Hillh~d~ ... "' Symington Pill ". ....,-./~ Muirhouselaw Ioomlield '> " Garpol Water \ ~DYkeh~ad Ladywell ( C tl h'l . ' .rren~land . • ... • as e I Watcarrtck / Eccles House • ~e~itage Chapel Th \ d }. Klrndean e rc ar • Gotterbie Moor . • Mains 01 Aucheni!~~co Penntnghame Queens Hill ~oodhall .J""'..r--..~./ palac~ar~.t.. . (Boreland ql Kelton < mbie.f.Whlnnyltgg~te ~"'ooz kms o 25 50 75 100 I , ;' . o 10 20 30 40 50 60 • Moated sites miles Distribution of moated sites PC 431

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