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Name:Possible Iron Age enclosure, Hall Fields, Peckleton
HER Ref:MLE3011
Parish:Peckleton, Hinckley and Bosworth, Leicestershire
Grid Reference:SK 489 015
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Monument Types

  • RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE (Iron Age - 800 BC? to 42 AD?)

Summary

A cropmark of a possible Iron Age rectanglular enclosure was photographed from the air in the 1980s. It is visible on 1969 and 2006 aerial photos.

Additional Information

Fieldwalking by AH 1987 and 1988, including enclosure and next field east, nothing seen. (AG 14/02/89)


<1> Pickering, J & Hartley, R F, 1985, Past Worlds in a Landscape - Archaeological Cropmarks in Leicestershire, p33 (Bibliographic reference). SLE37.

Rectangular enclosure cut by a linear boundary, photographed from the air by J Pickering. (RFH 08/10/86)

Sources

<1>Bibliographic reference: Pickering, J & Hartley, R F. 1985. Past Worlds in a Landscape - Archaeological Cropmarks in Leicestershire. p33.

Associated Finds

    None recorded

Designations

    None recorded

Associated Images

NGR_019_02.jpg
Enclosure and ditch cropmarks, Hall Fields (unknown date)
© Leicestershire County Council
NGR_021_08.jpg
Enclosure and linear feature, Hall Fields (unknown date)
© Leicestershire County Council
NGR_022_03.jpg
Linear feature and enclosure, Hall Fields (1976)
© Leicestershire County Council
NGR_022_04.jpg
Linear feature and enclosure, Hall Fields (c.1977)
© Leicestershire County Council
NGR_022_05.jpg
Linear feature and enclosure, Hall Fields (c.1977)
© Leicestershire County Council
NGR_022_15.jpg
Linear feature and enclosure, Hall Fields (unknown date)
© Leicestershire County Council
NGR_022_16.jpg
Linear feature and enclosure, Hall Fields (unknown date)
© Leicestershire County Council
NGR_023_23.jpg
Enclosure and linear feature, Hall Fields (1976)
© Leicestershire County Council
SK488016a.tif
Rectanglular enclosure, Hall Fields (1976)
© Historic England Archive, Jim Pickering Collection
SK488016b.tif
Rectangular enclosure, Hall Fields (1976)
© Historic England Archive, Jim Pickering Collection
SK489014.tif
Possible Iron Age rectanglular enclosure, Hall Fields (1979)
© Historic England Archive, Jim Pickering Collection