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ANCIENT EARTHWORKS HOMESTEAD MOATS (CLASS F) continued Ordnance Number Parish Name Form Dimensions (Outside Measurement) Alti- tude Situation, Notes, &c. Ft. XXXV, 6 Draycott in PaynsleyHall An inner ditch 200 ft. by 90 ft. 500 About I J miles from the Moors with banks, shewing Draycott (South) one side and two returns ; also to south-east, two sets of ditches, 192 ft. long, with banks ; also two circular mounds between 1 the outer and inner intrenchments, each 27 ft. in diameter ; also considerable fragments of in- trenchments to the north - east and north-west. XXIII, 13 Eccleshall . Charnes Irregular ; formed 2 50 ft. by 200 ft. 400 i mile east of Old Hall out of rectangle ; Charnes wet ; house on site XXXVI, 3

Wootton Fragment of irre- About 70 yds. in 400 At Wootton, i gular form ; dry length miles from Eccles- hall XX, ii Ellastone Bentley Fold Two sides of rect- 1 90 ft. by 1 90 ft. 351 Ellastone angle, and part of another ; wet XXXVI, 3 Ellenhall . ' Old Hall . Fragments of a 2 20 ft. by 1 80 ft. 378 Near church and square, connected road, between Ranton with a pond ; dry and Stone XXXVI, > Ranton Part of two sides ; 400 ft. & 280 ft. 393 On road between 7 & 1 1 Abbey dry Great BndgeforJ and Littleworth LVII, 13 Essington At the Filled up in 1896

567 2 miles east of Blox- Hollies wich LVI, 15 99 West Croft Three sides of a 1 70 ft. by 1 70 ft. 491 Off road between Farm square ; wet Wolverhampton and Shareshill, 3 miles north-east of Wolver- hampton LVI, 1 6 99 Moat House Filled up 1 5 years 55 ago XIV, 13 Farley . . Moat House Rectangular ; dry 1 60 ft. by 1 29 ft. 1,005 Near Cotton (north- east) LIII, 13 Fisherwick . Fisherwick . Fragmentary ; cir- 5 50 ft. 200 ij miles north-east (figured in cular segment ; dry of Whittington, near Plot) River Tame XXXI, 13 Gayton Moat Farm . Rectangular ; bro- 260 ft. by 1 80 ft. 300 South of churchyard ken on north side ; part wet 363