King Lud's Entrenchments and The Drift

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King Lud's Entrenchments and The Drift
Site of Special Scientific Interest
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Location Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Grid reference SK 864 282 [1]
InterestBiological
Area23.9 hectares (59 acres) [1]
Notification 1984 [1]
Location map Magic Map

King Lud's Entrenchments and The Drift is a 23.9 hectares (59 acres) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest which straddles the border between Lincolnshire and Leicestershire, and is east of Croxton Kerrial. [1] [2] King Lud's Entrenchments is a scheduled monument. [3]

King Lud's Entrenchments is also known as King Lud's Intrenchments [3] or King Lud's Banks. [4] The site has not been excavated and its date is unknown. It has been thought of as a Saxon boundary ditch, but aerial photographic work has suggested that it may be part of an extensive prehistoric boundary system extending from Northamptonshire to the Humber and termed `the Jurassic spine'. [5]

This site has limestone grassland with tor-grass, cock's foot, crested dog's-tail and red fescue. Herbs include salad burnet, field scabious, germander speedwell and perforate St John's-wort, and there is also some broad-leaved semi-natural woodland. [6]

There is access to the site and The Drift is part of the Viking Way long-distance trail.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Designated Sites View: King Lud's Entrenchments and The Drift". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
  2. ↑ "Map of King Lud's Entrenchments and The Drift". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
  3. 1 2 Historic England. "King Lud's Intrenchments and adjacent barrow (1013184)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  4. ↑ Great Britain. Ordnance Survey. (1939). Map of Britain in the Dark Ages. South sheet. OCLC   24857038.
  5. ↑ Historic England. "KING LUDS ENTRENCHMENTS (323540)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  6. ↑ "King Lud's Entrenchments and The Drift citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 13 November 2017.

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