Monument record MLI51449 - Probable Roman Settlement Site, Mill House, Ingham

Summary

A probable Roman settlement site, located to the south of Mill House, Ingham.

Type and Period (4)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Full Description

A probable Roman settlement site, located on the cliff to the south of Mill House. Much Romano-British material and metalwork has been found here, including a late Roman belt fitting. {1}{2} Part of a buckle of Hawkes and Dunning's type IIIA was found, consisting of a finely modelled animal's head with the buckle's hinge bar emerging from its gaping jaws. The hinge bar has an area of wear at the point where the tingue would have fitted. Kevin Leahy suggests that the site at Ingham is probably a rural settlement. Coins of the house of Valentinian found on the site show 4th century occupation. {3}{4} Romano-British pottery sherds were reported to have been ploughed up on this site before c.1970. {5} Cropmarks of small and regular rectangular ditched enclosures have been noted on an aerial photograph of 1979. The enclosoures were thought to have possibly formed part of a field system or small settlement. {6} A folis of Constantius II (c.320 AD) and a Flavian brooch were found on the site in 1989, along with lead fragments and building stone. {7}

Sources/Archives (7)

  •  Index: Lincolnshire County Council. Sites and Monuments Record Card Index. SK 98 SE: R.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: P.L. Everson, C.C. Taylor and C.J. Dunn. 1991. Change and Continuity: Rural Settlement in North-West Lincolnshire. Archive Notes.
  •  Article in Monograph: Kevin A. Leahy. 1984. 'Late Roman and Early Germanic Metalwork from Lincolnshire' in A Prospect of Lincolnshire. pp.26, 28, 30.
  •  Article in Monograph: Kevin A. Leahy. 1993. 'The Anglo-Saxon Settlement of Lindsey' in Pre-Viking Lindsey. pp.30, 42.
  •  Index: KNOWLES G C. 1977. EAST MIDLANDS ARCHAEOLOGICAL BULLETIN. no.11, p.30.
  •  Aerial Photograph: Paul Everson. 1975-90. RCHM. 2965/14 (1979).
  •  Unpublished Document: S.J. Catney. 1989. PARISH FILE. INGHAM. -.

Map

Location

Grid reference Centred SK 9567 8300 (200m by 218m) Estimated from Sources
Civil Parish INGHAM, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Record last edited

Jan 4 2023 3:11PM

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