MLI41870 - Roman cremation cemetery, Albert Street, Horncastle

Monument record MLI41870 - Roman cremation cemetery, Albert Street, Horncastle

Summary

Roman cremation cemetery, Albert Street, Horncastle

Type and Period (3)

ARTEFACT SCATTER (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
BURIAL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
CEMETERY (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Protected Status/Designation

Conservation Area: Horncastle

Full Description

PRN 41870 includes the now deleted records of 41899, 41869, 41853, 43735 Ordnance Survey records are quoted as stating that 24 cinerary urns were found in this area in 1838. One double handled urn is in the City and County Museum, Lincoln and another is in Grimsby Museum. {1}{2}{3} Roman cremation urns are recorded as being found on vicarage ground before 1857-8. {4}{5} Two Iron Age cremation urns are also recorded at this location, see PRN 42200. Roman cremation urns were found in 1858 on the site of the Union Workhouse. Other finds include mortarium fragments, Samian pottery, querns fibulae and bronze pins. {5}{6}{7} A residual sherd of probable Roman orange courseware, and a sherd of greyware was recovered at the former Highways Depot off Mareham Road. {8}{9}

Sources/Archives (9)

<01> SLI3096 Index: SMR FILE. HORNCASTLE. TF 26 NE Y,1978, TMA.
<02> SLI323 Article in Serial: C.W. Phillips. 1935. 'The Present State of Archaeology in Lincolnshire: Part 2' in the Archaeological Journal. VOL 91, P170.
<03> SLI2569 Index: OS CARD INDEX. HORNCASTLE. TF 26 NE 2,1964, COLQUHOUN F.
<04> SLI3096 Index: SMR FILE. HORNCASTLE. TF 26 NE BV,1978, TMA.
<05> SLI405 Article in Serial: TROLLOPE, E.. 1858. Associated Architectural and Archaeological Societies’ Reports and Papers. P202.
<06> SLI3096 Index: SMR FILE. HORNCASTLE. TF 26 NE, S, 1978, TMA.
<07> SLI3096 Index: SMR FILE. HORNCASTLE. TF 26 NE, G, 1978,TMA.
<08> SLI1855 Report: Archaeological Project Services. 1998. Former Highways Depot off Mareham Lane. HMR 98.
<09> SLI1519 Archive: Archaeological Project Services. 1998. Former Highways Depot off Mareham Lane. LCNCC 84.98.

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Grid reference	Centred TF 2643 6939 (125m by 243m)
Civil Parish	HORNCASTLE, EAST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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