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Description: | AT 'MONKSDOLES' A COIN OR COINS WERE FOUND 'IN AN URNE UNDER SOME LARGE SQUARED STONES'. THIS MOATED ENCLOSURE WITH ANCIENT FOUNDATIONS IS DESCRIBED, LIKE THAT IN GEDNEY HILL, AS ABOUT 2 MILES FROM SOUTH SEA BANK. PERHAPS GUANOCK, A MEDIEVAL MONASTIC GRANGE (20505) IS INTENDED. {1} A DOUBLE RECTANGULAR MOAT SEEN AT SUTTON ST EDMUND, AND ANCIENT FOUNDATIONS HAVE BEEN DUG UP WITHIN THE ENCLOSURE, AND SOME ROMAN COINS FOUND. 'ONE MR HOUGHTON, OF ST EDMUNDS, SHEWED ME A PADUAN IN GREAT BRASS..PRETENDED TO BE FOUND IN AN OLD RUINOUS GRANGE CALLED MONKSDOLES, AMONGST SOME LARGE SQUARED STONES' (1790). {2} | Temporal: | 43 - 409 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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