Monument record MLI50863 - CROPMARKS OF A SMALL SETTLEMENT ON EITHER SIDE OF CROSS LANE
Summary
CROPMARKS OF A SMALL SETTLEMENT ON EITHER SIDE OF CROSS LANE
Type and Period (3)
- SETTLEMENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- ENCLOSURE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FARMSTEAD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Full Description
PRN 50863
An extensive area of rather irregular overlapping cropmark enclosures in a rectangular configuration, with a long sinuous ditch on the east - possibly a trackway or a boundary ditch. The cropmarks continue on the western side of Cross Lane, where a square-shaped ditched enclosure, with two possible internal hut-circles, centred at TF01149244, appears to be connected to the main complex by a series of ditched enclosures - possibly field boundaries. Possibly a small settlement of Romano-British date. Fieldwalking by Dilwyn Jones over the main area of cropmarks on the east side of Cross Lane produced a heavy concentration of Romano-British pottery and a single Iron Age sherd (see PRN 50864 and 50865). Jones suggests that the complex represents a dependent village possibly connected to a villa site east of Cross Lane Bridge in Glentham, and considers the western enclosure with the round houses and the Iron Age sherd to indicate an earlier, pre-Roman phase of occupation. {1}
Sources/Archives (9)
- <1> SLI723 Article in Serial: Dilwyn Jones. 1988. 'Aerial Reconnaissance and Prehistoric and Romano-British Archaeology in Northern Lincolnshire - A Sample Survey' in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. V 23pp17,26;F8,19APpp7,20.
- <2> SLI196 Aerial Photograph: Paul Everson. 1975-90. RCHM. 2968/5,1979, .
- <3> SLI150 Aerial Photograph: Paul Everson. 1975-90. RCHM. 2967/35-37,1979, .
- <4> SLI150 Aerial Photograph: Paul Everson. 1975-90. RCHM. 2968/4,1979, .
- <5> SLI150 Aerial Photograph: Paul Everson. 1975-90. RCHM. 2971/16-23,1979, .
- <6> SLI110 Aerial Photograph: 1945-84. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY COLLECTION. BZL 79-81,1976, .
- <7> SLI173 Aerial Photograph: 1945-84. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY COLLECTION. BZL 85,1976, .
- <8> SLI3613 Map: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1992-1996. National Mapping Programme. TF0192:LI.496.7.1-20,1994, .
- <9> SLI5405 Article in Monograph: Helen Winton. 1998. 'The cropmark evidence for Prehistoric and Roman settlement in west Lincolnshire' in Lincolnshire's Archaeology from the Air. page 52 fig 4.2.2.
Map
Location
Grid reference | Centred TF 0151 9253 (321m by 408m) Centre |
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Civil Parish | BISHOP NORTON, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Record last edited
Mar 21 2021 8:35PM
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