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Thanks to Our wonderful volunteers and homeowners we have completed what we set out to do. The Story of Seven Settlements can be found on the website www.bosworthlinks.org or click here Bosworthlinks
Congerstone 2025 Draft Report (Ex-Flint)
Congerstone Dig Saturday Photographs
Congerstone Dig Sunday Photographs
Shackerstone Dig Full Report
Shackerstone Dig Video
Shackerstone 28th & 29th September 2024 Photographs
Shenton Dig Video
Shenton Dig 20th & 21st April 2024 Photographs
Shenton 20th & 21st April 2024 Dig Reports
Cadeby Dig – Video
Cadeby Dig – Full Report
Cadeby Dig – Individual Reports
Cadeby Dig Photographs 9th & 10th September 2023
Carlton September 2022 Full Report
Carlton Test Pit Reports – Individual
Carlton 2022 Photographs
Carlton Dig 2022 Film
Coton 2023 Photographs
Coton Dig 2023 Film
Coton Dig Reports
Project Background
- Market towns, such as Market Bosworth, are quintessential elements of the English countryside, providing an important hub for a community much wider than the town itself. In 2017-18, community-driven archaeological investigation in Market Bosworth proved highly successful, giving its residents a unique opportunity to explore their own past, make new discoveries about the development of their town and identifying previously unknown archaeological sites dating back thousands of years to the Bronze Age. This was only one part of a much bigger picture. In the East Midlands, important avenues of archaeological research include gaining a better understanding of the role towns had as social, administrative, industrial and commercial centres within their regional marketing system. To do this, it is important to study surrounding settlements which share an affinity with it.
- A coherent archaeological study of a market town and its satellite settlements has never been carried out before and provides an important opportunity to investigate the nature and extent of the town’s influence on the surrounding countryside. For instance, in the medieval period did villages have a symbiotic relationship with their market town (i.e. did the fortunes of one influence the others)? Did manorial ownership affect relationships (some settlements shared the same tenants-in-chief, others did not)? The Black Death in the 14th century appears to have had a major effect on settlement in Market Bosworth, did it have a similar effect in the surrounding villages? Market Bosworth and some of the surrounding villages existed by the 11th century, and are mentioned in the Domesday Book, but others did not. When did these villages develop, and why did they seemingly develop after the 11th century? Villages like Osbaston and Cadeby have Viking name elements. What evidence, if any, is there for Scandinavian activity in these villages?
- Bosworth Links is an archaeological project organised by the Market Bosworth Society seeking to answer some of these questions through a programme of community-driven test-pit excavation. It is proposed that test-pits will be dug by homeowners and volunteers in gardens and public spaces across six settlements in west Leicestershire – Carlton, Osbaston, Cadeby, Sutton Cheney, Shenton & Far Coton.
More Pits, Pots and pipes 2018 – Bill Newsinger
Test Pit Dig Reports 2017 to 2019
Reports from 2019
Short Souvenir Guide in PDF – Mathew Morris
Metal Detecting Report – Mathew Morris
ULAS News – Bosworth Links
Photographs of 2019 – Nigel Palmer
Photographs 2018 – By Seth Lewis
Photographs 2017 – By Seth Lewis
Final Report (2018) to HLF – Gemma Tallis
Lidar, Resistivity and Ariel Photographs of Mkt Bosworth Country Park
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Bosworth Links is grateful to and supported by The Market Bosworth Society The Heritage Lottery Fund, The Dixie Educational Foundation, The Market Bosworth Parish Council, The Richard III Legacy Fund. The Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council (PCIF) Heart of England Co-operative Society
