Monument record MLI30580 - SAXON SETTLEMENT AND CEMETERY SITE, WOOLSTHORPE
Summary
SAXON SETTLEMENT AND CEMETERY SITE, WOOLSTHORPE
Type and Period (2)
- CEMETERY (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 410 AD to 650 AD)
- SETTLEMENT (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 410 AD to 650 AD)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Full Description
Prehistoric to medieval settlement was revealed and destroyed by surface ironworkings at different times since 1882 along a strip of land about 1 mile long and a quarter to a half a mile wide on either side of Sewstern Lane, where it divides Woolsthorpe and Denton.
Saxon (probably Pagan) cinerary urns, spearheads, two Aberg's group IV fibulae, iron shield bosses, brass rings and buckles and glass beads found. The fibulae came from Brewer's graveyard (a suicide's grave).
Extended inhumations, oriented north and south, have also been found.
Spearheads and fibulae are in Grantham Museum. {5}
A SERIES OF CINERARY URNS, SPEARHEADS, BROOCHES, BRASS RINGS, BUCKLES, GLASS BEADS AND SHIELD BOSSES... 'WERE FOUND NEAR BRIDGE.... THERE IS NO TRACE WHATEVER OF ANY PERMANENT BUILDING'. {1}{2}{3}{4}{5}
'Mixed cemetery of 1885 during ironstone working. Numerous cinerary urns, broken pottery, weapons, brass rings, and buckles, glass beads...as fibulae. These fibulae were found in the Brewer's Gravefield...and consist of a pair...each of 5 and a half inches, one of 4 inches and one of 2 and a quarter inches, all of massive brass (Cruciform brooches). There were also 2 flat circular thin brass fibulae c.1.5 inches diameter with pins belonging to them, but detached.' {7}
Sources/Archives (7)
- <1> SLI419 Article in Serial: WELBY, A.. 1919. Associated Architectural and Archaeological Societies’ Reports and Papers. VOL15 P150.
- <2> SLI358 Article in Serial: 1886. Associated Architectural and Archaeological Societies’ Reports and Papers. P132.
- <3> SLI597 Article in Serial: HILL, A.. 1907. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES. VOL21 P420.
- <4> SLI323 Article in Serial: C.W. Phillips. 1935. 'The Present State of Archaeology in Lincolnshire: Part 2' in the Archaeological Journal. VOL91.
- <5> SLI2855 Index: OS CARD INDEX. WOOLSTHORPE. SK 83 SW 3,1965, FC.
- <6> SLI850 Bibliographic Reference: MEANEY, A.. 1964. A Gazetteer of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites. -.
- <7> SLI6024 Index: South Kesteven records. Woolsthorpe. SK 83.07.
Map
Location
Grid reference | Centred SK 8442 3304 (803m by 1435m) Centre |
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Civil Parish | WOOLSTHORPE, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Record last edited
Mar 21 2021 8:35PM
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