Not really a find, but a lot has been found there!
Moregrove Manor is probably the oldest settlement in Martham. Jeremy Moore, whose family have owned the manor in the past, attended our March 2012 meeting. As the main aim of the meeting was to hear the memories of people who lived in the parish in 1952/3, at the Queen's accession and coronation, we could allow only a small amount of time. This a topic to which we will certainly return.
Jeremy told us how Moregrove Manor has been in existence for at least 900 years, starting with the timber-built hall of a Norman nobleman in 1120 AD. During the 12th and 13th centuries this was replaced by a stone house which subsequently “disappeared”, to be replaced by the present buildings. Several of these are Listed barns built in the 17th to 19th centuries. Seven years ago Jeremy bought the property back into his family and started on a rebuild. He found himself “tripping over archaeology”: the tusk of a wild boar and a flint axe head from the New Stone Age; post holes from a possible Iron Age roundhouse; an entire wall from the Norman house lying on its side underneath the pond.
He had so much to tell us in so little time. We look forward to seeing how Jeremy is getting on when we pay him a visit.