Leicester Archaeologists find 5000-year-old Human Remains By
Corinne Field 01/04/2004 Bones of a man and woman dating back to
3000BC have been found in a gravel pit in Leicestershire. The
extraordinary find, including a skull, vertebrae and long bones,
are the earliest human remains ever found in the county...
continues... An earthwork site once interpreted as being a Roman
Legionary fortress; though now thought to be a probable Iron Age
hillfort. Late Bronze Age and Iron Age pottery and a Roman
pottery sherds have been found here. The site was later
incorporated into Brough/ Burgh Medieval Deer Park and may have
indeed given the park its name. (SK 498058) Bury Camp (NR) (1) A
rectangular camp of single vallum & fosse, known as "Ratby
Burrow" or "Bury" Camp: occupies an area of over nine acres.
Rampart 3ft high on north side with escarpment of 38ft into a
ditch with 9ft counterscarp. "At the NE & SW angles the vallum
rises to a greater height and at the former is a fragment of a
slightly raised circular platf