Monument record MLI30315 - Prehistoric flints, Willoughby Road Sandpit, Ancaster

Summary

Prehistoric flints, Willoughby Road Sandpit, Ancaster

Type and Period (1)

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)

  •  Index: SMR FILE. ANCASTER. SK 94 SE:BU,1979, TMA.
  •  Index: SMR FILE. ANCASTER. SK 94 SE:BX,1980, TMA.
  •  Index: Wessex Archaeology. 2012. The Colonisation of Britain Project. 13451.

Map

Location

Grid reference Centred SK 9759 4379 (278m by 278m) Approximate
Civil Parish ANCASTER, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Record last edited

Aug 17 2022 2:02PM

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