Monument record MLI50969 - SITE OF A ROMAN BUILDING ON WILLOUGHTON CLIFF
Summary
SITE OF A ROMAN BUILDING ON WILLOUGHTON CLIFF
Type and Period (3)
- ARTEFACT SCATTER (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- VILLA (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FARMSTEAD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Full Description
Roman building material, a scatter of large stones, brick, fragments of box and ordinary tiles, coarse pottery, millstones, etc, discovered by Ethel Rudkin in 1931. In 1964 the ordnance survey field inspector reported that a few sherds of coarse grey pottery were found at SK94139279 during fieldwalking and fragmentary tiles and black pottery were found at SK94119295; the area was then under crop. Mrs Rudkin stated that the main concentration of finds was at SK94169280. {1}
Possibly referred to in 'Early Days in North-West Lincolnshire':- another occupation site lies immediately to the west of PRN50572 . Here Mrs Rudkin made trial holes in many places and always found burnt slabs of cliff stone, blackened potsherds, charcoal and bones. There was everywhere a noticeable absence of roofing tile. The digging of a trench 18 feet by 4 feet to a depth of 2 feet 4 inches exposed a series of rough hearths of cliff stone and the usual sherds, charcoal and bones. Many walling stones were brought to the surface during deep ploughing; also a good quernstone. {3}{4}
Sources/Archives (4)
- <1> SLI2846 Index: OS CARD INDEX. WILLOUGHTON. SK 99 SW:13,1964, FEATHERSTON K J A.
- <2> SLI3387 Index: SMR FILE. WILLOUGHTON. SK 99 SW:L -.
- <3> SLI14441 Article in Serial: RUDKIN, E.H.. 1933. 'Roman Sites North of Lincoln' in The Lincolnshire Magazine. p.227.
- <4> SLI1067 Bibliographic Reference: Dudley, H. E.. 1949. Early Days in North-West Lincolnshire, A Regional Archaeology. p144.
Map
Location
Grid reference | Centred SK 9411 9288 (171m by 246m) Centre |
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Civil Parish | WILLOUGHTON, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Record last edited
Mar 21 2021 8:35PM
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