Monument record MLI30315 - Prehistoric flints, Willoughby Road Sandpit, Ancaster
Summary
Prehistoric flints, Willoughby Road Sandpit, Ancaster
Type and Period (1)
- ARTEFACT SCATTER (Early Mesolithic to Early Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 1501 BC)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Full Description
Worked flint and flint waste which includes microlithic scrapers and blades which date from the Mesolithic to the early Bronze Age. Their Accession Numbers are 5 to 79. There is also one small sherd of finger nail impressed pottery (which is probably Bronze Age) which was returned to the finder. {1}
Further material is at Accession Numbers 144 to 180. {2}
A number of cores, scrapers, blades, microliths and microburins are recorded in the Colonisation of Britain Project at SK976 438 at Willoughby Road sandpits. The finds are not precisely dated but the Project records flints from the Palaeolithic to the Mesolithic only. The flints are in the Lincoln Museum. {3}
Sources/Archives (3)
- <1> SLI2876 Index: SMR FILE. ANCASTER. SK 94 SE:BU,1979, TMA.
- <2> SLI2876 Index: SMR FILE. ANCASTER. SK 94 SE:BX,1980, TMA.
- <3> SLI13825 Index: Wessex Archaeology. 2012. The Colonisation of Britain Project. 13451.
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Location
Grid reference | Centred SK 9759 4379 (278m by 278m) Approximate |
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Civil Parish | ANCASTER, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Record last edited
Aug 17 2022 2:02PM
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