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Monument Number 319190
Hob Uid: 319190
Location : City of Leicester Non Civil Parish
Grid Ref : SK6307005890
Summary : Manorial site and fishponds site suggested Humberstone (east) Manor House.
More information : D o E (Anc Mons Division) rescue excavations were conducted on an earthwork (Sch Mons Leics No 66) 400 yards east of Humberstone church and shown as 'moat' on OS maps [at SK 63070589] in July and August 1955. Finds included the foundations of a house dated by pottery to early 13th c and a few sherds of early 12 c Stamford ware. A second house was 15 c and later. The actual earthwork, formerly described as a moat, was considered more likely to be mutilated fishponds. Some2c, 3c and 4c Ro pottery was also found, and a beam slot may have been Roman. According to Kendall there were two manors at Humberstone, on being west of the church [SK 60 NW 10], he thought the second one to be east of the church [see SK 60 NW 11] but nothing in his description proved it to be mediaeval. Thus the newly discovered manorial house with the probable fishponds may well be the second manor house. (1) Site visited 10.9.71 on request of D o E. Descheduled and levelled. Moats filled for housing development by Leicester co-ownership HousingSoc. (NO 4) Ltd. Spoke to contractors and inspected site - no further finds. Fragmentary earthworks only remain at this site and these are so greatly mutilated and encroached upon that their archaeological significance is hardly discernible and the publication would be more correct as 'site' rather than 'remains'. Published survey (1:2500 1967) revised. (2)

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Source details : T.Leic.A.S.35,1959,1 - 32. (P.Rahtz)
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Source details : 'Humberstone'(Hist of church and manors) 1916. (G.E.Kendall)
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Source Number : 2
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Source details : Leics Mus Records (J B Whitwell)
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Source details : F1 FDC 01-JUN-72
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Medieval
Monument End Date : 1540
Monument Start Date : 1066
Monument Type : Fishpond, Manor House
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Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Post Medieval
Monument End Date : 1901
Monument Start Date : 1540
Monument Type : Fishpond, Manor House
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Leicestershire)
External Cross Reference Number : 60NW CM
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SK 60 NW 12
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1955-01-01
End Date : 1955-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1972-06-01
End Date : 1972-06-01

Associated Activities :
Activity type : EVALUATION
Start Date : 1999-01-01
End Date : 1999-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : WATCHING BRIEF
Start Date : 1999-01-01
End Date : 1999-12-31

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 319190