Monument record MLI115934 - Ditched Enclosure, Prebend Lane, Welton

Summary

Iron Age or Romano-British ditched enclosure and associated features, on land off Prebend Lane, Welton.

Type and Period (5)

  • (Late Iron Age to Roman - 1 AD to 99 AD)
  • (Late Iron Age to Roman - 1 AD to 99 AD)
  • (Late Iron Age to Roman - 1 AD to 99 AD)
  • ? (Late Iron Age to Roman - 1 AD to 99 AD)
  • ? (Late Iron Age to Roman - 1 AD to 99 AD)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Full Description

A concentration of ditch and pit-like magnetic anomalies were recorded in this location in March 2014, during magnetometry survey conducted to inform proposed residential development on land off Prebend Lane, Welton. The anomalies were thought to represent the remains of a ditched enclosure with associated features, all of likely Iron Age or Romano-British date. {1} Subsequent trial trenching, conducted in September and October 2014, confirmed the presence of the ditched enclosure, and recorded a number of associated pit and ditch features. A potential cremation burial or hearth was also identified though was not excavated. The features seem to indicate occupational activity in this area, comprising a number of phases of enclosure construction with smaller linear features and refuse pits. Pottery recovered from a number of these features was dated to the 1st century AD, confirming the suspected late Iron Age or early Roman date for this activity. An assemblage of animal bone was also recovered from some of the features, though was too small and fragmentary to indicate much other than the presence of cattle, sheep and horse on the site. Analysis conducted of an environmental sample taken from one the excavated ditches confirmed the likely domestic nature of the site, identifying charred remains of cereal grains and rhizomes. {2}{3}

Sources/Archives (3)

  •  Report: Pre-Construct Geophysics. 2014. Land off Prebend Lane, Welton. -.
  •  Report: Pre-Construct Archaeological Services Ltd. 2014. Land off Prebend Lane, Welton. PCAS site code: PLWE 14.
  •  Archive: Pre-Construct Archaeological Services Ltd. 2014. Land off Prebend Lane, Welton. LCNCC 2014.176.

Map

Location

Grid reference Centred TF 0101 8023 (73m by 73m) Estimated from sources
Civil Parish WELTON, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Record last edited

Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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