Hampshire Treasures

Volume 8 ( Test Valley North)

Page 219 - Thruxton

Entry 02

Group B - Archaeological Sites and Remains (Post Norman)
Description and Date: Fortified Manor with Moat
Remarks: North of St. Peter and St. Paul's Church. A banked and ditched homestead, the original site of Thruxton Manor house. The site overlies an earlier banked and ditched sub-rectangular enclousure on the east side, which has probably original casewayed entrances in the north and south sides. Moat to north and west. O.S.A. No.SU24 NE22. Ref: Field Archaeology as Illustrated by Hampshire, (Williams-Freeman), pp.119-20, 337, 411.
Protection: S.A.M. No. H.165
Grid Ref.: SU 288 455
Punchcard No.: 1723 02

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