| King Lud's Entrenchments and The Drift | |
| Aos: | Leicestershire Lincolnshire |
| Interest: | Biological |
| Area: | 23.9ha |
| Notifydate: | 1984 |
| Map: | Magic Map |
King Lud's Entrenchments and The Drift is a 23.9ha biological Site of Special Scientific Interest which straddles the border between Lincolnshire and Leicestershire, and is east of Croxton Kerrial.[1] [2] King Lud's Entrenchments is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
King Lud's Entrenchments is also known as King Lud's Intrenchments or King Lud's Banks.[3] The site has not been excavated and its date is unknown. It has been thought of as a Saxon boundary ditch, but aerial photographic work has suggested that it may be part of an extensive prehistoric boundary system extending from Northamptonshire to the Humber and termed `the Jurassic spine'.
This site has limestone grassland with tor-grass, cock's foot, crested dog's-tail and red fescue. Herbs include salad burnet, field scabious, germander speedwell and perforate St John's-wort, and there is also some broad-leaved semi-natural woodland.[4]
There is access to the site and The Drift is part of the Viking Way long-distance trail.