An undated ditch and bank earthwork enclosing a large area known as Craddocks has now mostly been destroyed. It may be an Iron Age hill slope enclosure.
Documentary references dating back to 1764 describe a camp, variously dated in antiquarian sources as Roman or British, about half a mile outside Leighton Buzzard. By the late 19th century, it was being stated that the earthwork, a large roughly oval camp, was destroyed following Parliamentary enclosures of the mid 19th century.
It seems most likely that the earthworks were a single ditch and bank probably of Iron Age date enclosing a large hilltop area, which was later divided internally. Much of the earthwork has now been destroyed.
| --- | SBD10543 - Bibliographic reference: Bedfordshire Magazine. Vol 8, 1961-1963, p113 |
| --- | SBD10548 - Bibliographic reference: R Richmond. 1928. Leighton Buzzard and Its Hamlets. p 2 |
| --- | SBD10551 - Unpublished document: Bedfordshire & Luton Archives and Records Service Documents. BLARS: X325/107, Gurney diary, 1916 |
| --- | SBD10569 - Bibliographic reference: Bedfordshire Archaeological Journal. Voll 11, 1976, pp 9-11 |
| --- | SBD10574 - Article in serial: 1908. Victoria County History, Bedfordshire. Vol 2, p 8, and Vol 3, p 402 |
| --- | SBD10681 - Serial: Bedfordshire Historical Record Society. Vol 5, 1920, 178-179 |
| --- | SBD10684 - Unpublished document: Buckinghamshire Museum Documents. Gurney notebook "Eaton Bray", 1912, p 89 |
| --- | SBD10689 - Unpublished document: D & S Lysons. 1806. Magna Britannica. Bedfordshire. p 35 |
| --- | SBD10713 - Bibliographic reference: J D Parry. 1831. History and Description of Woburn and its Abbey. p 1 |
| --- | SBD10741 - Article in serial: Gentleman's Magazine. Vol 34, 1764, p 60 |
| --- | SBD10804 - Bibliographic reference: Rev. J Stevenson. 1851. Old Times at Leighton Buzzard. p 8 |
| --- | SBD10806 - Unpublished document: OS SP 92. SP 92 NW 4 |
| --- | SBD10810 - Bibliographic reference: E W Brayley, J Britten. 1801. Beauties of England and Wales. p 37 |
| --- | SBD10811 - Bibliographic reference: J Fowkes, R Legg. 1980. Monumenta Britannica, John Aubrey, 1621-97, parts I and II. p 359 |
| --- | SBD10812 - Bibliographic reference: Records of Bucks. Vol 10, 1916, p 271 |
| --- | SBD10813 - Bibliographic reference: Camden, ed Gibson. 1695. Britannia. p 291 |
| --- | SBD10814 - Unpublished document: Archives of St Georges Chapel, Windsor Castle. XV 61, 60 |
| --- | SBD10778 - Bibliographic reference: W G Smith. 1894. Man the Primeval Savage. p 322 |
| --- | SBD10779 - Verbal communication: S R Coleman. S R Coleman. Dec 1980 |
| --- | SBD10781 - Bibliographic reference: W G Smith. 1904. Dunstable: its History and Surroundings. pp 43, 59 |
| --- | SBD10782 - Bibliographic reference: The Bedfordshire Archaeologist. Vol 2, 1959, pp32-33 |
| --- | SBD10785 - Article in serial: Archaeological Journal. Vol 39, 1882, p 290; p 36 in reprint |