Site Event/Activity record ELI4015 - The Fosse Way, Gallows Nooking Common, Nottinghamshire/Lincolnshire

Location

Grid reference Centred SK 8578 6059 (44m by 41m) Estimated from Sources
Civil Parish NORTON DISNEY, NORTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

Technique(s)

  • Trial Trenching

Organisation

Trent and Peak Archaeological Unit

Date

From 01 Jan 2001 to 31 May 2001

Map

Description

A single trial trench was excavated to inform the proposed widening of the A46 road between Lincoln and Newark. The trenches was positioned across an intermittent low bank, which marked the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire county boundary in this area. It had been suggested that the bank had earlier origins, marking the original alignment of the Roman Fosse Way, although no trace of the former Roman road was identified in the trench. The bank was shown to be very badly disturbed by roots and animal burrows, and although redeposited sherds of Roman and post-medieval pottery were recovered, it remains undated. Further ditches were identified running parallel to the bank, some stretches of which have been identified as post-medieval, and others being Iron Age in origin. It was suggested that the possible bank and ditch system perhaps represents a sequence of construction of territorial boundaries dating from the Iron Age to the Anglo-Saxon or medieval period, although this interpretation remains tentative. {1}

External Links (1)

Sources/Archives (1)

  •  Report: Trent and Peak Archaeological Unit. 2001. The Fosse Way, Gallows Nooking Common, Nottinghamshire/Lincolnshire. TPA site code: GNC.

Related Monuments/Buildings (3)

  • Iron Age Activity, Gallows Nooking Common (Monument)
  • Romano-British Activity, Gallows Nooking Common (Monument)
  • Undated Linear Bank, Gallows Nooking Common (Monument)

Record last edited

Apr 13 2023 9:08AM

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