Monument record MLI127207 - Excavated Bronze Age and Iron Age Finds and Ditched Enclosures, Halton Road, Spilsby
Summary
Excavations in 2020 following 2015 geophysics recorded Bronze Age flint, and Bronze Age and Iron Age pottery in a system of enclosure ditches.
Type and Period (5)
- DITCH (Later Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- DITCHED ENCLOSURE (Later Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- MULTIPLE DITCH SYSTEM (Later Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- RING DITCH (Later Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- ENCLOSURE (Later Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Full Description
A magnetometry geophysical survey undertaken in 2015 identified a portion of a system of rectilinear enclosures with a broad northwest to south east alignment. {1}{2}
Further investigations in 2020 during an evaluation recorded a small quantity of Neolithic or Bronze Age flint, Early to Mid Bronze Age pottery, with the largest assemblage being of Iron Age date. A total of 69 grams of Bronze Age pottery was recorded, in comparison to 413 grams of Iron Age pottery. While the majority of the features recorded were interpreted as ditches and gullies, the form of some of the features suggests the presence of at least two ring ditches. {3}{4}
This area may possibly relate similar monuments to the immediate east, including MLI43209, MLI43408, MLI43214, MLI43215, MLI43156, and MLI43157. This area comprises cropmark barrows, cropmark enclosures, a possible cropmark hut circle, and a cropmark boundary. Additionally Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age flints and Meolithic flint have been recovered from fields in this location.
Sources/Archives (4)
- <1> SLI18244 Report: Pre-Construct Geophysics. 2015. Archaeological Geophysical Survey, Land at Spilsby. -.
- <2> SLI18245 Archive: Pre-Construct Geophysics. 2015. Archived Report, Archaeogical Geophysical Survey, Land at Spilsby. -.
- <3> SLI18246 Report: Pre-Construct Archaeology. 2020. Land off Halton Road, Spilsby, An Archaeological Evaluation. PCA Site Code HRSL20.
- <4> SLI18247 Archive: Pre-Construct Archaeology. 2020. Archived Report, Land off Halton Road, Spilsby, An Archaeological Evaluation. LCNCC 2020.76.
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred TF 4077 6591 (281m by 255m) Estimated by Sources |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | SPILSBY, EAST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Record last edited
Aug 22 2024 9:01AM
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