Monument record MLI51488 - Cemetery, Hackthorn/Brattleby parish boundary
Summary
Numerous skeletons have been found in the vicinity of Ermine Street indicating a cemetery may have existed at this site.
Type and Period (2)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Full Description
PRN 51488
Numerous skeletons found during lowering and levelling the centre of Ermine Street between Hackthorn Lodge and Aisthorpe Lodge in 1829. {1}
A skeleton was recorded as being found during construction of a pipeline during 1936 at a distance of two paces from Ermine Street at Hackthorn. {5}
Two inhumations were found on the 19th April 1956 during levelling of the agger of Ermine Street for an extension to the runway. These were close together and apparently under the agger at SK 972 806. {2}
The sites and monuments record file records for Brattleby indicate an almost identical site, which is possibly a duplicate of the Hackthorn records. {3}{4}
Sources/Archives (5)
- <1> SLI3062 Index: SMR FILE. HACKTHORN. SK 98 SE:W,1956, -.
- <2> SLI3062 Index: SMR FILE. HACKTHORN. SK 98 SE:E,1956, -.
- <3> SLI2929 Index: SMR FILE. BRATTLEBY. SK 98 SE:X -.
- <4> SLI2410 Index: OS CARD INDEX. BRATTLEBY. SK 98 SE:4 -.
- <5> SLI1357 Correspondence: RUDKIN, E.H.. 1934-38. Letters to Mr Baker and others. WILLOUGHTON. 13/07/36.
Map
Location
| Grid reference | Centred SK 9720 8080 (160m by 159m) |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HACKTHORN, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE |
| Civil Parish | BRATTLEBY, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Record last edited
Mar 21 2021 8:35PM
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