<< Text Pages >> King Lud’s Intrenchments - Misc. Earthwork in England in Leicestershire and Rutland
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Date UncertainSite Name: King Lud’s IntrenchmentsCountry: England
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County: Leicestershire and Rutland Type: Misc. Earthwork
Map Ref: SK867279
Latitude: 52.841643N Longitude: 0.714255W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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The site known as King Lud’s Intrenchments presumably named after King Lud, a mythical king of Britain, is situated on the parish boundaries of Sproxton and Croxton Kerrial, in north-east Leicestershire, close to the Lincolnshire border. It consists of a multiple bank and ditch system contained within two long spinneys.
(MELTON O.S.130, SK867279), It extends east to west for about a kilometre and is followed by a parish boundary for the whole of its length. Its construction involved the movement of huge quantities of earth and therefore the deployment of a great deal of manpower. The banks are up to 0.75 metres high and the ditches are on average 8 metres wide. They are best seen at their eastern end where there is a gap in the hedge close to where the minor road from Croxton Kerrial joins that from Saltby. The purpose of such earthworks was to mark important boundaries in the landscape and King Lud’s Intrenchments may have been part of a large prehistoric boundary system extending from Northants to the Humber. Although long thought to be Anglo-Saxon in origin and identified with the Kingdom of Mercia, its prehistoric origin is now thought more likely. Source: The Scheduled Ancient Monuments of Leicestershire and Rutland by Leonard Cantor http://www.kairos-press.co.uk/pdf/monuments1.pdf
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