Monument record MLI50980 - EARLY IRON AGE POTTERY AND SKELETON FOUND EAST OF HARPSWELL

Summary

EARLY IRON AGE POTTERY AND SKELETON FOUND EAST OF HARPSWELL

Type and Period (1)

  • (Early Iron Age - 800 BC to 401 BC)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Full Description

A scrap of early Iron Age pottery found recently (1930s) by the Harpswell Cross Roads. {2} A skeleton, possibly associated with a sherd of thick black pottery with much shell, decorated with string impression and fingertips; the pottery is of the early Iron Age. Found at Hemswell in 1931. {1}{3}{4} In 1964 Featherston reported that the whereabouts of the finds was unknown. The find spots were within the perimeter of the airfield and field walking was not possible. {3} The information appears to have been duplicated and there are 3 separate grid references:- SK93839002 (from C. W. Phillips), SK93879005 (from Tom Baker) - both quoted by the OS card; and SK93878998 (from ?AO records) quoted by the SMR card SK 98 NW: B. {1}{3}{4}

Sources/Archives (4)

  •  Index: SMR FILE. HEMSWELL. SK 98 NW:B -.
  •  Article in Serial: C.W. Phillips. 1935. 'The Present State of Archaeology in Lincolnshire: Part 2' in the Archaeological Journal. VOL 91 (1934) p99.
  •  Index: OS CARD INDEX. HEMSWELL. SK 99 SW:16,1964, FEATHERSTON K J A.
  •  Index: SMR FILE. HEMSWELL. SK 99 SW:AN,1983, D.E.S..

Map

Location

Grid reference Centred SK 9383 9002 (90m by 100m) Centre
Civil Parish HARPSWELL, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE
Civil Parish HEMSWELL, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Record last edited

Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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