Monument record MLI50558 - BURIALS FROM BURTON HILL TOP QUARRY

Summary

BURIALS FROM BURTON HILL TOP QUARRY

Type and Period (2)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Full Description

The site of an inhumation cemetery - possibly Roman? White's Directory of 1882 records 'in excavations for stone at Burton Hill Top in 1864, an oval grave was discovered containing a great number of human bones of all sizes and also twelve stone coffins: in 1870 three other coffins were dug up made of burnt clay'. {1}

Sources/Archives (2)

  •  Index: SMR FILE. BURTON. SK 97 SE: A,1930, PHILLIPS, C.W..
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Eleanor Scott. 1993. A Gazetteer of Roman Villas in Britain. p.119.

Map

Location

Grid reference Centred SK 9640 7460 (48m by 48m)
Civil Parish BURTON, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Record last edited

Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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