Monument record MLI30054 - Prehistoric/Romano-British settlement site east of Greatford
Summary
Prehistoric/Romano-British settlement site east of Greatford
Type and Period (5)
- ENCLOSURE (Undated)
- SETTLEMENT (Late Iron Age - 100 BC to 42 AD)
- RING DITCH (Undated)
- ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 801 BC)
- FARMSTEAD (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 409 AD)
Protected Status/Designation
Full Description
PRN 30054 [This record includes information from PRN 30055 which has now been deleted.]
Settlement area, east of Greatford village. {1}
Part of the large and straggling agricultural settlement at Greatford, probably of Iron Age or Roman date. This site comprises a homestead enclosure and what appear to be stockyards with a drove road running away from it in two directions. The whole area is a complex one and there is a possibility of several overlapping periods of use. {2}{3}
An extensive, probably Roman, occupation site, connected with 30051 falls within a large area of ancient fields (see scheduled monument number 33581). There are fourteen irregular rounded enclosures, one linked by a track to a rectangular one. At TF097119 is a trackway with double right-angled bends and rectangular enclosure attached.{4}{5}{6}
Almost entirely under standing corn. Only very limited perambulation was possible and nothing else was seen. {4}{12}
The cropmarks include a small irregular circular enclosure or ring ditch, which may be a round barrow. {6}
Sources/Archives (13)
- <01> SLI3055 Index: SMR FILE. GREATFORD. TF 01 SE:Z,1980, WHITE, A.J..
- <02> SLI4137 Scheduling Record: HBMC. 1978. AM 7. SAM 327.
- <03> SLI175 Aerial Photograph: J.K.S. St Joseph. 1945-79. Cambridge University Collection. JG52;VJ31,33.
- <04> SLI2529 Index: OS CARD INDEX. GREATFORD. TF 01 SE:17,1965, D.A..
- <05> SLI1057 Bibliographic Reference: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1960. A Matter of Time. -.
- <06> SLI175 Aerial Photograph: J.K.S. St Joseph. 1945-79. Cambridge University Collection. AGB83;BPW21.
- <07> SLI175 Aerial Photograph: J.K.S. St Joseph. 1945-79. Cambridge University Collection. EA059;JG50-51;AAA41.
- <08> SLI110 Aerial Photograph: 1945-84. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY COLLECTION. VJ27;AFN81,86;AGB52;BCS33.
- <09> SLI110 Aerial Photograph: 1945-84. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY COLLECTION. BQQ059;BPW17,24.
- <10> SLI110 Aerial Photograph: 1945-84. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY COLLECTION. ABJ74;BFS13;VJ30;YE70.
- <11> SLI193 Aerial Photograph: 1946-98. RCHME. 943/32,1975, .
- <12> SLI3613 Map: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1992-1996. National Mapping Programme. TF 01 SE, LI.788.49 1995.
- <13> SLI5405 Article in Monograph: Helen Winton. 1998. 'The cropmark evidence for Prehistoric and Roman settlement in west Lincolnshire' in Lincolnshire's Archaeology from the Air. p.54, fig.5a.6.
Map
Location
Grid reference | Centred TF 0979 1190 (626m by 489m) Estimated from Sources |
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Civil Parish | GREATFORD, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Record last edited
Mar 21 2021 8:35PM
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