Monument record MLI43573 - ANGLO SAXON CEMETERY, HALL HILL

Summary

ANGLO SAXON CEMETERY, HALL HILL

Type and Period (3)

  • (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 410 AD to 550 AD?)
  • (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 410 AD to 550 AD?)
  • (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 410 AD to 550 AD?)

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Full Description

PARISH FILE INCLUDES A LIST OF 15 FUNERARY URNS. THE ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY WAS REVEALED BY PLOUGHING IN APRIL 1954. THE SITE WAS EXCAVATED BY G V TAYLOR AND HE RECOVERED 4 ALMOST COMPLETE URNS, 2 SEMI- COMPLETE URNS AND MANY STAMPED SHERDS. {1}{2}{3} GLASS BEADS AND POTTERY WERE FOUND IN 1930. DEEP PLOUGHING IN 1954 REVEALED PAGAN SAXON POTTERY SCATTERED OVER SOME 2 ACRES. TAYLOR RECOVERED 21 URNS WITH CREMATIONS. {4}, AREA 4.5H, LENGTH 250M, WIDTH 180M Hall Hill is a prominent spur of land which might well be described in Old English as a 'hoh', which means 'projecting ridge of land'. The site lies on and adjacent to the parish boundary with Bolingbroke looking immediately down over the town to the north-west and might be an appropriate site for the wapentake to meet. There is place-name evidence in East Keal which suggests a route leading to a meeting place ('spelowgate'). However, there is no secure locational evidence to confirm this, so this remains conjectural. {6}

Sources/Archives (6)

  •  Scheduling Record: HBMC. AM 7. SAM 308.
  •  Index: SMR FILE. WEST KEAL. TF 36 SE:S,1956, -.
  •  Artefact: City and County Museum Collection. LM 33.56.
  •  Index: OS CARD INDEX. WEST KEAL. TF 36 SE:1,1964, SEAMAN B H.
  •  Article in Serial: C.W. Phillips. 1934. 'The Present State of Archaeology in Lincolnshire: Part 1' in the Archaeological Journal. VOL90,PP115-8,120-1,124-5.
  •  Unpublished Document: Aliki Pantos. 2000. Lincolnshire Assembly-Places. No 5.

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Location

Grid reference Centred TF 3568 6394 (228m by 271m) Estimated from sources
Civil Parish WEST KEAL, EAST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Record last edited

Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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