MLI33387 - ANGLO SAXON CREMATION CEMETERY, BASTON - Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer

Monument record MLI33387 - ANGLO SAXON CREMATION CEMETERY, BASTON

Summary

ANGLO SAXON CREMATION CEMETERY, BASTON

Type and Period (4)

CEMETERY (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 410 AD to 649 AD)
CREMATION (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 410 AD to 649 AD)
ARTEFACT SCATTER (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 410 AD to 649 AD)
BURIAL (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 410 AD to 649 AD)

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Full Description

An Anglian urn cemetery discovered in 1851 and partially excavated by Trollope in 1863. Trollope found ten urns full of calcined bones at a depth of about one foot. They were between five and eleven and a half inches in diameter; some were ornamented with raised knobs and one with concentric circles. Two pairs of iron shears and a fragment of bone comb were found in or associated with the urns. On a previous occasion a bronze fibula brooch had been found in an urn on at the same spot. {1}{2} During a drought the farmer had noticed square structures showing as cropmarks. {5}{7} Excavation in 1966 produced evidence for a small inhumation/cremation cemetery of the mid fifth to late sixth century. Of the forty-four pots, sixteen came from in situ positions. {12} Evaluation of the site in 1989 established that the full extent of the cemetery had been excavated in 1966. A watching brief in 1994 at Urn Farm revealed no further evidence of the cemetery. The only Anglo-Saxon remains were several sherds of redeposited pottery. htm 8m Fieldwalking was undertaken in the field adjoining Urn Farm and east of King Street in order to establish the approximate location of the Anglo-Saxon cemetery. Several pieces of Saxo-Norman pottery were recovered. {13}

Sources/Archives (13)

<01> SLI2377 Index: OS CARD INDEX. BASTON. TF 11 SW 4,1964, DA.
<02> SLI337 Article in Serial: TROLLOPE, E.. 1863. ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL. VOLXX PP29-31.
<03> SLI321 Article in Serial: MYERS, J.N.L.. 1951. ‘The Anglo-Saxon Pottery of Lincolnshire’ in the Archaeological Journal. VOL108 PP65-99.
<04> SLI3429 Report: LINDSEY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SERVICES. 1989. DEEPING ROAD, BASTON. 89/1.
<05> SLI2897 Index: SMR FILE. BASTON. TF 11 SW A,1965, DEAN M J.
<06> SLI2897 Index: SMR FILE. BASTON. TF 11 SW A,1976, HEALEY R H.
<07> SLI2235 Index: 1965. EAST MIDLANDS ARCHAEOLOGICAL BULLETIN. VOL8 P22.
<08> SLI2236 Index: 1966. EAST MIDLANDS ARCHAEOLOGICAL BULLETIN. VOL9 P20.
<09> SLI2237 Index: 1974. EAST MIDLANDS ARCHAEOLOGICAL BULLETIN. VOL10 P28.
<10> SLI776 Article in Serial: J.B. Whitwell (ed.). 1966. 'Archaeological Notes, 1964 and 1965' in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. VOL2 P41.
<11> SLI323 Article in Serial: C.W. Phillips. 1935. 'The Present State of Archaeology in Lincolnshire: Part 2' in the Archaeological Journal. VOL91 P142,1934, PHILLIPS, C.W..
<12> SLI620 Bibliographic Reference: MAYES, P. AND DEAN, M.J.. 1976. AN ANGLO SAXON CEMETERY AT BASTON, LINCS. OCC PAPER NO.3.
<13> SLI5514 Article in Serial: Healey, H.. 1964-65. Boston and South Lincolnshire Archaeology Group Annual Report. page 5.

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Grid reference	Centred TF 109 136 (301m by 253m)
Civil Parish	BASTON, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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