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Welbeck Hill is the site of Roman and early Saxon pottery finds,〔 〕 and an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, located around 1.75 miles from Laceby, and around 3 miles from Riby, in North East Lincolnshire, England. ==19th century and Welbeck spring== George Oliver visited the site during the 19th century and sent his report to ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' in October, 1832. Oliver's interest was in what he believed were ancient defensive earthworks, ramparts and a ditch, around the hill, and its proximity to ''Barton Street'', a prehistoric 'north-south route' in North East Lincolnshire, and later Roman road.〔 Oliver suggested the hill may have been the site of a watchtower for an 'exploratory camp' that could have retreated behind the fortifications in times of danger.〔 He also described the nearby Welbeck spring: "...which was 'uniformly dry during the winter season, but in the month of February or March, a loud rumbling noise is heard in the ground for several days, and at length the water bursts forth in a hundred places as to fill in a few hours the whole area of the well or enclosure of earth where it is situated..." The spring, with others, joins the Laceby Beck, before flowing into the River Freshney, and then into the sea at Grimsby.〔 The Beck is an 'internationally rare' spring-fed, chalk stream, which 'has experienced chronic low flows during the summer months', and is the focus of a conservation program that commenced in January, 2013.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 Improving wildlife habitat on an important Lincolnshire chalk stream )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Welbeck Hill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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