Kibengo

Kibengo is one of western Uganda's great earthwork settlements, with extensive ditches surrounding an inhabited area. Pottery and animal remains speak of life within the enclosure from the late thirteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. The ditches were probably dug in the fifteenth or sixteenth century, in an undertaking that required substantial labour. Among Kibengo's remains are pottery decorated with roulette patterns and many fish bones. Like Bigo and Munsa, it belonged to a landscape of substantial local centres enclosed by earthworks, though the lives and resources of their inhabitants differed. Its broad ditches remain a striking trace of the people who shaped this country before the rise of later kingdoms.