Monument record MLI51250 - Possible Palaeolithic or Mesolithic site, Hardwick Hill

Summary

Possible Palaeolithic or Mesolithic site, Hardwick Hill

Type and Period (2)

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  • None recorded

Full Description

Finds described by Leslie Armstrong as rolled middle and late Aurignacian-type flint implements found in February 1932 enclosed in a boulder clay and raised beach at Hardwick Hill. The implements found in the raised beach are heavily rolled by wave action; those taken from what appears to be a boulder clay, or 'coombe-rock', lying on the hill slopes above the level of the raised beach, are in most cases slightly rolled and abraded but in some instances they show no signs of such action. The raised beach forms a fairly continuous terrace, at approximately 50 feet OD and appears to be due to estuarine, or lake, conditions related to the glaciation which laid down the brown boulder clay of Lincolnshire and Norfolk. The implements include burins, round and keeled scrapers and other typical Upper Aurignacian tools. {4} In 1964 Featherston reported that Lincoln Museum held a large collection of implements from the site. The area was covered by dense forest and was not fieldwalked. {1} Material seen by Roger Jacobi at Doncaster and Scunthorpe Museums (presumably from this site though the national grid reference is incorrect) included microliths, blades and flakes, and other implements, all classified as Mesolithic. {2} An awl, eight microliths, seven bladelets or flakes, a scraper and a truncation tool are recorded at SK 840 995 in the Colonisation of Britain Project. They are in the British Museum, Doncaster Museum and Scunthorpe Museum. {5}

Sources/Archives (5)

  •  Index: OS CARD INDEX. EAST FERRY. SK 89 NW:3,1964, FEATHERSTON K J A.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: J.J. Wymer and C.J. Bonsall (eds.). 1977. Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales, with a Gazetteer of Upper Palaeolithic Sites in England and Wales. p.176.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Harold E. Dudley. 1949. Early Days in North-West Lincolnshire, A Regional Archaeology. p33.
  •  Article in Serial: ARMSTRONG, A.L.. 1932. PROCEEDINGS OF THE PREHISTORIC SOCIETY. VOL 7 p130.
  •  Index: Wessex Archaeology. 2012. The Colonisation of Britain Project. 15321, 15327 and 15328.

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Location

Grid reference Centred SK 8398 9953 (328m by 331m) Approximate
Civil Parish EAST FERRY, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Feb 15 2024 1:04PM

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