Monument record MLI30162 - Roman Farmstead, Pasture Lodge Farm, Long Bennington

Summary

Remains of Romano-British buildings, thought to represent a former farmstead, at Pasture Lodge Farm, Long Bennington.

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Full Description

Romano-British building foundations and a surface scatter of pottery, including samian, colour-coated ware, greyware and painted wares have been found in this area from the 1950s to 1970. Three coins of Constantine II and Constantius II have also been found. {1}{2}{3}{4} Indeterminate cropmarks on vertical RAF aerial photographs have been identified by the National Mapping Programme. {5}{6} Also found at the site was a sculpture of a figure riding a bi-ped phallus. {7}{8}{9} Excavations in 1975-77 revealed part of a ditch complex of the mid 1st century AD containing course pottery, a brooch, and some baked clay sling-shots. The relative scarcity of finds suggested that this part of the settlement was not the focus of domestic settlement at this time. Rather more animal bone and a wider range of artefact types were identified in the succeeding phase of ditches and fire-pits that dated to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th centuries. In that later 4th century, a Romanised stone building with associated mortar and clay floors, internal and external rendering, artefacts and faunal remains, was constructed above the earlier ditch complex and modified extensively thereafter. This was probably part of a larger complex. An enigmatic timber structure in the south-east corner belonged to this phase. The stone building was of two phases: Phase 1 was 6.5m wide by more than 17m. Phase 2 reused the same south wall, 5.5m wide by more than 11.5m long. This building appeared to have been plastered both inside and out and had mortar flooring. An extension was added to the south, probably between phases 1 and 2. To the south of this was evidence of possible later occupation. There is a sketch of the location of the site in the parish file. Excavations in 1975 revealed evidence of occupation of second to fourth century, and in one of the rooms was a corn drier. {10}{11}{12} Two sherds of Roman pottery were recovered near this site (at SK 828 473) during field walking for the Silk Willoughby to Staythorpe Gas Pipeline - Phase 2. {13}{14}

Sources/Archives (14)

  •  Index: Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey Card Index. SK 84 NW: 5.
  •  Index: 1959. EAST MIDLANDS ARCHAEOLOGICAL BULLETIN. p.9.
  •  Index: Lincolnshire County Council. Sites and Monuments Record Card Index. SK 84 NW: C.
  •  Correspondence: Dean, M.. 1967. Correspondence re Roman excavation. -.
  •  Aerial Photograph: 1946-98. RCHME. SK8247/9; SK8347/2; SK8346/9 (1970).
  •  Map: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1992-1996. National Mapping Programme. LI.745.21.1-3.
  •  Article in Serial: 1975. BRITANNIA. vol.6, p.285.
  •  Photograph: 1975. PARISH FILE. -.
  •  Article in Serial: C.N. Moore (ed.). 1975. 'Archaeology in Lincolnshire, 1974' in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. vol.10, pp.58-9.
  •  Article in Serial: A.J. White (ed.). 1976. 'Archaeology in Lincolnshire and South Humberside, 1975' in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. vol.11, p.59.
  •  Article in Serial: A.J. White (ed.). 1977. 'Archaeology in Lincolnshire and South Humberside, 1976' in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. vol.12, pp.76-7.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Leary, R. S.. 1994. Excavations at the Romano British Settlement at Pasture Lodge Farm, Long Bennington, Lincolnshire, 1975-77 by H. M. Wheeler. -.
  •  Report: The University of York. 2000. Reconnaissance Programme: Silk Willoughby to Staythorpe Gas Pipeline - Phase 2. SSP99.
  •  Archive: The University of York. 2000. Reconnaissance Programme: Silk Willoughby to Staythorpe Gas Pipeline - Phase 2. LCNCC:252.99.

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Grid reference Centred SK 828 471 (113m by 128m) Centre
Civil Parish LONG BENNINGTON, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

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