Monument record MLI12723 - LOOK-OUT MOUND, FISHTOFT

Summary

LOOK-OUT MOUND, FISHTOFT

Type and Period (3)

  • (Post Medieval - 1643 AD to 1646 AD)
  • (Post Medieval - 1643 AD to 1646 AD)
  • (Post Medieval - 1643 AD to 1646 AD)

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  • None recorded

Full Description

There were formerly four mounds, each about a quarter of a mile from Rochford Tower (these were possibly look-outs). Those to the south-east and the north-east had been levelled by 1856. See PRN12757 for the mound to the south (Toothill). The fourth mound could not be located from either maps or aerial photographs.{1}{2} This feature has been ploughed down to an amorphous platform, maximum height 0.4m. The soil shows a slightly higher colour than that of the adjacent ground, but nothing of interest was found.{1} Arms and armour, possibly of the Cromwellian period, was seen by a farmer levelling the north-west beacon by Rochford Tower. {3} A 'beacon' is marked on the Ordnance Survey six inch map beside a small squarish earthwork in the bend of a field boundary. {4} A programme of archaeological fieldwalking was undertaken on land to the south of Wainfleet Road, Fishtoft. The fieldwalking failed to identify the presence of any 17th century earthworks.{5}{6}

Sources/Archives (6)

  •  Index: OS CARD INDEX. FISHTOFT. TF34SW21,1965, DA.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Pishey Thompson. 1856. The Histories and Antiquities of Boston. P 322.
  •  Index: SMR FILE. FISHTOFT. TF34SW:Z -.
  •  Map: OS. 1956. OS 6 INCH SERIES. TF34SW.
  •  Report: Archaeological Project Services. July 2005. Archaeological Fieldwalking on land at Wainfleet Road, Fishtoft. BOWR05.
  •  Archive: Archaeological Project Services. Jul 2005. Archaeological Fieldwalking on land at Wainfleet Road, Fishtoft. LCNCC 2005.125.

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Grid reference TF 3482 4470 (point)
Civil Parish FISHTOFT, BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Record last edited

Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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