Monument record MLI50563 - CROPMARKS OF POSSIBLE SETTLEMENT, SOUTHWEST OF SMITHFIELD FARM

Summary

CROPMARKS OF POSSIBLE SETTLEMENT, SOUTHWEST OF SMITHFIELD FARM

Type and Period (3)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Full Description

CROPMARKS OF A POSSIBLY MULTI-PERIOD SETTLEMENT SOUTHWEST OF SMITHFIELD FARM AND SOUTH OF A PREHISTORIC AND ROMANO-BRITISH SITE (PRN 50562, 50721). THE MAIN COMPLEX CONSISTS OF SMALL REGULAR RECTANGULAR DITCHED ENCLOSURES POSSIBLY REPRESENTING BUILDINGS AND POSSIBLY FIELD BOUNDARIES, WITH TRACES OF DOUBLE-DITCHED TRACKWAYS. TO THE EAST OF THE MAIN COMPLEX ARE TRACES OF IRREGULAR (OVOID) DITCHED ENCLOSURES WITH POSSIBLE INTERNAL CIRCULAR FEATURES, AND CURVILINEAR DOUBLE-?DITCHED TRACKWAYS OR POSSIBLE PALAEOCHANNELS. CROPMARKS SEEN ON 1977 PAUL EVERSON AP. {1}~ PROBABLE PREHISTORIC CROPMARK BOUNDARIES. {2}

Sources/Archives (2)

  •  Aerial Photograph: Paul Everson. 1975-90. RCHM. 5157/12,1977, .
  •  Map: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1992-1996. National Mapping Programme. TA0601:LI.484.9-10.1-4,1994, .

Map

Location

Grid reference Centred TA 0669 0114 (258m by 153m)
Civil Parish NORTH KELSEY, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

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Record last edited

Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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