These mounds were not burial places but medieval rabbit warrens. The first mound or more southerly mound is rectangular, while the next mound is a 105-foot (32-m) long bank. After the Norman Conquest, rabbits were valued for their meat and fur. Warreners managed the mounds and would send ferrets down to catch the escaping rabbits.

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Location: Dunstable, Central Bedfordshire, East Of England, England, United Kingdom

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Medieval Rabbit Warrens, Chilterns National Landscape

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