Miscellaneous

Husbands Bosworth Causewayed Enclosure
Enclosure

A Passage from The Scheduled Ancient monuments of Leicestershire and Rutland, by Leonard Cantor:

In the parish of Husbands Bosworth, 175 metres

west of Wheler Lodge Farm (HARBOROUGH, O.S.140 SP640823),

the buried remains of a large causewayed enclosure have

been revealed by recent geophysical survey and

excavations. Two concentric interupted ditches survive

well as a buried feature, and are likely to preserve

artefacts such as pottery fragments and flint tools. Over

50 such enclosures have been recorded nationally,

constructed in the Neolithic period, between about 3000

and 2400BC and continued in use later. They were used for

various functions including settlement, defence and

ceremonial and funerary purposes. Amongst the earliest

field monuments to survive in the modern landscape, they

are considered to be of national importance.

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