George Hoskins, W. (1941). The Deserted Villages of Leicestershire. Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society 22. Vol 22, Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society. pp. 241-264. https://doi.org/10.5284/1107786. Cite this via datacite
| Title: | The Deserted Villages of Leicestershire | |||
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| Issue: | Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society 22 | |||
| Series: | Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society | |||
| Volume: | 22 | |||
| Page Start/End: | 241 - 264 | |||
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| Abstract: | As the sun sets behind the crumpled outline of the Charnwood Hills, the evening light throws long shadows across the pastures of east and south Leicestershire, revealing in many places the presence of shallow ditches and banks that form a distinct pattern, often covering the greater part of a twenty-acre or even larger field. Such patterns may be most clearly seen where they lie upon a slope and are viewed from the opposite side of a valley, as atingarsby. In the high light of the middle hours of the day, the pattern is indistinguishable and appears merely as an irregular confusion of bumps and hollows. Often a long abandoned series of gravel pits, especially if the workings were shallow, will present much the same appearance on the ground. These old gravel pits may be found all over Leicestershire, particularly in the east and south, where good road material was scarce, and they are frequently mistaken by the inexperienced student for earthworks of archaeological interest. It is, however, not difficult with a little care and practice to distinguish mounds, banks, and depressions that are of real. archaeological significance from these other relics of man's activity in more recent times; most old gravel workings go back no further than the middle of the eighteenth century, when the movement to improve the surface and construction of roads was under way. | |||
| Year of Publication: | 1941 | |||
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| Created Date: | 08 Jun 2023 |
