Monument record MLI50550 - ROMAN OCCUPATION SITE AND BUILDING REMAINS, BLACK END

Summary

ROMAN OCCUPATION SITE AND BUILDING REMAINS, BLACK END

Type and Period (3)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Full Description

There is a Roman site is on the Blyborough-Willoughton boundary. The buildings are chiefly on the Blyborough side. Foundations have been removed from here by the cartload but there is a lot left and the soil in part of the field is so dark it is known to the farm-workers as 'the black end'. Much roof tile and pottery has been found. {5} A Roman occupation site and large surface scatter of finds on the Blyborough/ Willoughton boundary. The soil is so dark that the area is known as 'Black End'. Building foundations were seen in the 1930s. Brick, stone, roofing tiles, coarse pottery, a bronze brooch, a 4th or 5th century bronze libra [weight] with a Greek inscription, and other finds have come from the site. In 1964 the southern field in the indicated area was under pasture and no significant finds were made. The northern field was under plough and a liberal surface scatter of coarse grey pottery sherds was found over quite a large area around the site. The major portion of the site seems to be north of the parish boundary.{1}{2}{3}{4} Maybe the site of the mosaic pavement found in 1835? But local tradition places it at a field to the north. {2}{5}

Sources/Archives (5)

  •  Index: OS CARD INDEX. BLYBOROUGH/WILLOUGHTON. SK 99 SW: 11,1964, FEATHERSTON K J A.
  •  Index: SMR FILE Blyborough. BLYBOROUGH. SK 99 SW: Z,1931, PHILLIPS, C.W..
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Dudley, H. E.. 1949. Early Days in North-West Lincolnshire, A Regional Archaeology. p181.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Eleanor Scott. 1993. A Gazetteer of Roman Villas in Britain. p.118, LI16.
  •  Article in Serial: RUDKIN, E.H.. 1933. 'Roman Sites North of Lincoln' in The Lincolnshire Magazine. p.228.

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Location

Grid reference Centred SK 9234 9358 (366m by 423m)
Civil Parish BLYBOROUGH, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE
Civil Parish WILLOUGHTON, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Record last edited

Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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