More information : [Centred at SK 6200 1735] Earthwork [G.T.] (1)
Stephen de Segrave, in the early 13th c., purchased land at
Seagrave and built a Manor house there. (2)
"Extensive entrenchments [published ct. at SK 6200 1735] defend a
manorial site in this village [Seagrave] On the N is a low vallum
and a fosse 4' 9" deep and 9' wide. At the turn of the NE corner
and on the E side facing the Fosse Way is a double vallum and
double fosse. The outer is 4' deep and 16' wide, the inner 9' deep
and 22' wide, but the ramparts have been almost destroyed. At
the E the works turn at an obtuse angle and the fosse becomes 11'
deep". (3)
The Manor house of authy. 1 probably stood on or near the site
now occupied by the Hall Farm, the occupier of which told of a
farmyard cave-in in the mid. 19th c. which revealed what might
have been a cellar with shackles attached to the walls.
The earthworks of authy. 4 are a complex of three fishponds, with
remains of an adjacent enclosure ditch, the centre pond containing
a spring at its western extremity. The bank running N - S from
SK 6217 1733 - SK 6217 1724 was, according to the owner, removed
c.1936 and used in the construction of the dual carriageway on
Foss Way to the east. Surveyed at 25" 23-4 .1.61. (4)
No change. (5)
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