TOURNAMENT FIELD

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Earthwork pond, drain and field boundary of Post-Medieval date mapped from air photographs.

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[SK 3497 1858 & SK 3510 1863]
Tournament Field (G.T.) (Published twice). (1)

[SK] 349186. The site known as Tournament Field has been threatened
with open-cast mining. It is in fact a moated site and the present
title is presumably a nineteenth-century attribution. It would
be interesting to know it if was so-called before or after Sir
Walter Scott's choice of it for the site of the Tournament in
Ivanhoe (Published 1820).
[Is this the site of the DMV of Woodcote? SK 31 NE 4] (2)

The surviving features are manorial earthworks; basically a pond with
adjacent platform mound, probably a building site. There are
numerous linking ditches for drainage only and considerable ridge and
furrow but no evidence of desertion.
Published survey, (25" 1961), revised. (3)

Earthwork pond of Post Medieval date seen as one large
(15-50m) oblong negative feature. Mapped using good quality
AP's.
Centred at:-SK 3495 1861
(Morph No. FR.132.3.1)

Earthwork spoil heap of Post Medieval date seen as one large
(15-50m) amorphous positive feature. The spoil heap is derived
probably from clearing out the pond (FR.132.3.1), and was not
considered to be a building platform as described by authority
1. Mapped using good quality AP's.
Centred at:-SK 3495 1863
(Morph No. FR.132.3.2)

Probable earthwork drain of Post Medieval date seen as a single
linear feature defined by 1 ditch, with a maximum length of 150m.
Mapped using good quality AP's.
Centred at:-SK 3493 1857
(Morph No. FR.132.3.3)

Probable earthwork field boundary of Post Medieval date seen as a
single linear feature defined by 1 ditch, 1 bank, with a maximum
length of 130m. Mapped using good quality AP's.
Centred at:-SK 3497 1858
(Morph No. FR.132.3.4)

The pond and associated features (FR.132.1-4) may possibly be
part of Woodcote DMV mentioned by authority 2, but no other
features indicative of village remains were evident.
(4)

SOURCE TEXT

(1) General reference

O.S. 6" 1955.

(2) General reference

Trans Leicestershire Archaeol Soc 32 1956 93 (Leicester Museums Dept of Ants)

(3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 FRH 28-JUL-66

(4) General reference

Yvonne Boutwood/27-MAY-1993/RCHME: National Forest Project

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