- 28
Scheduled Ancient Monuments
- Around
705 buildings listed as of Special Architectural or Historical
Interest
- 16
Sites of Special Scientific Interest
- At
least 12 deserted village sites
- Rural
villages and interesting churches
-
Industrial archaeology including the Grantham Canal, the remains
of the Wreak Navigation
-
Windmill sites, ironstone working and smelting Archaeological
evidence suggests that
- Melton
Borough was densely populated in Bronze and Iron Ages.
- Many
small village communities existed and strategic points at
Borough Hill and Belvoir were fortified. There is also evidence
to suggest that the site of Melton Mowbray, in the
- Wreak
Valley, was inhabited before Roman occupation (43 A.D.).
- In
Roman times, due to the close proximity of the Fosse Way and
other important Roman roads, military centres were set up at
Leicester and Lincoln; and intermediate camps were also
established, for example, Six Hills on the Fosse Way.
- Other
Roman track-ways in the locality passed north of Melton along
the top of the Vale of Belvoir scarp; linked Market Harborough
to Belvoir, and linked the Fosse Way to Oakham and Stamford.
Evidence of settlement throughout Saxon and Dane Law period
(8th/9th centuries) is reflected in many place names
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