Monument record MLI43616 - Neolithic long barrow, Burgh Top

Summary

Neolithic long barrow 280m south of Burgh Top Farm

Type and Period (2)

  • (Early Neolithic to Late Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • (Early Neolithic to Late Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Full Description

A barrow similar in type to the Wessex short type of long barrow that is also found in north-east Yorkshire. 'Here there was what I take to be a long barrow, standing at some 100 yards from the road in the middle of a ploughed field and covered with old trees. Though rabbits have burrowed in it extensively, there is no evidence that it has been disturbed and there can be no doubt about its 'long' character'. {1} A possible but doubtful long barrow. It is scheduled. Leaf-shaped, transverse, and barbed and tanged arrowheads, plano-convex knives and scrapers etc have been picked up in the field. Finds are in the City and County Museum, Lincoln. Roman pottery is also said to have been found. A probable long barrow with a west-south-west to east-north-east orientation. The former end has a maximum height of 2.2m and the latter a maximum height of 1.5m. No side ditches are evident. From surface inspection the absence of side ditches elsewhere is common. No surface finds were made although the area has a heavy flint concentration, all of the flints are in the City and County Museum, Lincoln, but they have no knowledge of any Roman pottery. It is a substantial and prominent earthwork clearly visible from the public highway to the west. {9} This is an elongated mound which has been truncated at both ends by ploughing. Its situation is more typical of round barrows on the wolds. The mound is more likely to represent a plough-damaged round barrow. {10}

Sources/Archives (10)

  •  Index: Burgh on Bain SMR cards. BURGH ON BAIN. TF 28 SW A,1929, PHILLIPS, C.W..
  •  Index: Ordnance Survey. Burgh on Bain O.S. cards. BURGH ON BAIN. TF 28 SW 6,1962, D.A..
  •  Map: Ordnance Survey. 1905. OS County Series six inch map 1905. paper. 1:10560. -.
  •  Map: Baker, F. T.. 1954. OS 6 INCH SERIES. TF 28 SW.
  •  Index: HBMC. 1961. ANCIENT MONUMENTS IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 63.
  •  Scheduling Record: HBMC. AM 7. SAM 80.
  •  Article in Serial: C.W. Phillips. 1934. 'The Present State of Archaeology in Lincolnshire: Part 1' in the Archaeological Journal. VOL 89 P 176, 198-9.
  •  Index: PHILLIPS, C.W.. C.W. PHILLIPS PRIVATE INDEX. -.
  •  Scheduling Record: ENGLISH HERITAGE. 1996. REVISED SCHEDULING DOCUMENT 27877. MPP 23.
  •  Index: Dilwyn Jones. 1998. Gazetteer of Neolithic Elongated Enclosures and Extant Long Barrows in (Historic) Lincolnshire. -.

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Location

Grid reference Centred TF 2129 8497 (40m by 29m) Estimated from Sources
Civil Parish BURGH ON BAIN, EAST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Jan 12 2024 11:16AM

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