Monument record MLI33103 - Romano-British Settlement Cropmarks, Dunsby

Summary

Cropmarks of a Romano-British settlement site, including evidence of salterns, visible on aerial photographs.

Type and Period (4)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Full Description

A group of small ditched enclosures with associated causeways and fields seen as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The site was surveyed in 1951, and again as part of the Fenland Project. Finds included 2nd to 3rd century pottery, 2 pieces of grit quern, a few fragmants of cob, shells and bones scattered over areas of dark soil and on raised patches of land along a silty band. Fragments of an evaporating vessel were also found. {1}{2}{3}{4}{5}{6}

Sources/Archives (6)

  •  Index: Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey Card Index. TF 12 NW: 14.
  •  Article in Serial: Hallam, S.J.. 1960. Romano-British Salt Industry in South Lincolnshire. p.44.
  •  Index: Lincolnshire County Council. Sites and Monuments Record Card Index. TF 12 NW: G.
  •  Index: Parish card index of the former South Lincolnshire Archaeology Unit. DUNSBY. - -.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Hayes, P. P. and Lane, T. W.. 1992. The Fenland Project No.5: Lincolnshire Survey, the South-West Fens. Vol. 55, pp.90-93 (DUN 26).
  •  Aerial Photograph: Aerial Photograph. 1599/6-8, TF1527/3,5,6,8, JE91-93, LH9-11.

Map

Location

Grid reference Centred TF 1501 2727 (688m by 751m) Approximate
Civil Parish DUNSBY, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Record last edited

Apr 12 2021 3:52PM

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