Monument record MLI40575 - Neolithic/Bronze Age artefacts found, Burgh on Bain

Summary

Neolithic/Bronze Age artefacts found on Baxter Square Farm, Burgh on Bain. Location is beside the farm buildings and is indicative only.

Type and Period (1)

  • (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 801 BC)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Full Description

A polished flint celt [axe head], leaf-shaped, transverse and barbed and tanged arrowheads were found at Baxter Square Farm. Some of these finds are in the City and County Museum, Lincoln, including leaf-shaped and transverse arrowheads (accession no.83.54). The polished axe, leaf-shaped and barbed and tanged arrowheads are reported by F. T. Baker (Director of Lincoln Museum) as being in Louth Museum (they were not located as the museum is being re-organised). A local farmer, who has farmed here for the past 30 years has no knowledge of these finds. The area indicated is ridge and furrow pasture. {1}{2}{3}{4} These flints were probably collected by Thomas Henry Brown (1909-88) who was born at Baxter Square Farm, Burgh on Bain, and lived there for many years; his father being the tenant farmer. He had a large collection of various flints and artefacts at his home in Louth. He gave a lot of arrowheads, axe heads and various flints to Louth Museum before he died. Some remaining artefacts are still held by surviving family members. {5}

Sources/Archives (5)

  •  Index: Ordnance Survey. Burgh on Bain O.S. cards. BURGH ON BAIN. TF28NW13,1962, D.A..
  •  Index: Burgh on Bain SMR cards. BURGH ON BAIN. TF28NW:AW,1983, D.E.S..
  •  Article in Serial: C.W. Phillips. 1935. 'The Present State of Archaeology in Lincolnshire: Part 2' in the Archaeological Journal. p.161.
  •  Article in Serial: THOMPSON, F.H.. 1955. 'Archaeological Notes for 1954' in Lincolnshire Architectural and Archaeological Society Reports and Papers. VOL 6 PART 1 NS P 3.
  •  Electronic Communication: 2017. E-mail correspondence with a member of the Brown family. 20 January 2017.

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Location

Grid reference Centred TF 2166 8577 (59m by 59m)
Civil Parish BURGH ON BAIN, EAST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Record last edited

Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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