Series: Leicestershire Mus Art Gall Rec Service Archaeol Rep Ser

A moated site was fairly extensively excavated. No pre-Conquest structures were found, but there was residual pottery of 9th-11th century. A possible aisled building was replaced by another timber structure, then by metalled tracks in a succession, taking different directions. The moat was dug after 1400 but seemingly enclosed no structure. Full pottery report and discussion of trading patterns.

Covers rural industries, manufacturing industries, mines, quarries and building materials, transport.

Provides a comprehensive gazetteer of cropmark evidence and assesses its relationship to more conventional archaeological evidence. Domestic and ritual sites, field systems; interpretative figures and commentaries.

Sets the geological scene before discussing the entry of early man (Lr Pal) and subsequent development of the landscape. Woodland, parkland, farming in common fields, enclosures, and the modern scene are described. Hedgerows proved richer in species than the Hooper hypothesis predicts, perhaps being derived from ancient woodland.

Several multiple ring-ditch sites have been observed from the air in Leicestershire: excavations on two of them are reported. Sproxton, set out on previously cultivated land, had three main phases and was used for cremations of defleshed bodies. Eaton showed alternating cremation and inhumation rituals (two coffined burials) and four phases of ditch/mound construction; the cremated bodies were not defleshed. 14C dates. Summary in Curr Archaeol, 7, 1981, 238-42, pls, figs.