Monument record MLI52561 - EARLY MEDIEVAL/MEDIEVAL POTTERY KILNS, TORKSEY

Summary

EARLY MEDIEVAL/MEDIEVAL POTTERY KILNS, TORKSEY

Type and Period (1)

  • (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 410 AD to 1065 AD)

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  • None recorded

Full Description

MUCH TORKSEY WARE AND KILN FURNITURE WAS FOUND AT THIS LOCATION IN 1965, ON THE SITE OF A BUILDING DEVELOPMENT. {1}{2} EXCAVATIONS IN 1967 REVEALED KILNS 4 AND 5. KILN 3 WAS LOST, BUT THE SPOIL HEAP PRODUCED POTTERY (MOST OR ALL ROULETTED). TWO MORE KILNS WERE ALSO DISCOVERED, BRINGING THE TOTAL UP TO 7. THEY REPRESENTED PART OF THE POTTERY INDUSTRY IN TORKSEY OF THE NINTH TO THE TWELFTH CENTURIES. {1}{2}{3}{4}{5} DURING AN EVALUATION ON LAND TO THE REAR OF THE OLD POST OFFICE TWO MID-LATE TENTH CENTURY DITCHES WERE IDENTIFIED. THEY MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE KILN IMMEDIATELY TO THE SOUTH WEST OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT. ONE OF THEM MAY HAVE FORMED THE BOUNDARY FOR PROPERTIES FRONTING ONTO MAIN STREET. MUCH POTTERY, MOSTLY OF TORKSEY FABRICS, WAS RECOVERED DURING THE EVALUATION, SUGGESTING THAT THE FEATURES WERE OPEN AT THE TIME OF KILN OPERATION. OF PARTICULAR INTEREST ARE RIMS WHICH ARE UNLIKE ANY PREVIOUSLY RECORDED EXAMPLES OF KILN PRODUCTS SUGGESTING THE PRESENCE OF A FURTHER KILN OR KILNS IN THE VICINITY OF THE SITE. THIS AREA MAY REPRESENT AN INDUSTRIAL RATHER THAN OCCUPATION AREA. {6}{7} A tenant living at the corner of Sand Lane and the A1133 attended the Marton heritage roadshow. He reported that on his lawn there was a distinct sub-circular parch mark 9 feet by 6 feet, the mark itself being about 1 foot in width. A fragment of another curving mark was nearby. Excavation near these marks had yielded large quantities of medieval pot, some of it classic thumb print Torksey ware. {8}

Sources/Archives (8)

  •  Index: Torksey SMR File. TORKSEY. SK 87 NW:S,N,W -.
  •  Article in Serial: J.B. Whitwell (ed.). 1966. 'Archaeological Notes, 1964 and 1965' in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. VOL 2 P 52.
  •  Article in Serial: WHITWELL, J.B.. 1967. 'Archaeological notes for 1966' in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. VOL 3 P 31.
  •  Article in Serial: J.B. Whitwell and Catherine M. Wilson. 1968. 'Archaeological notes for 1967' in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. VOL 4 P 110.
  •  Article in Serial: BARLEY, M.W. ET AL. 1981. ANTIQUARIES JOURNAL. VOL 61 P 266-291.
  •  Report: Lindsey Archaeological Services. 1997. Land to the Rear of the Old Post Office, Main Street, Torksey: Archaeological Evaluation. TPO97.
  •  Archive: Lindsey Archaeological Services. 1997. Land to the Rear of the Old Post Office, Main Street, Torksey: Archaeological Evaluation. LCNCC 106.97.
  •  Correspondence: Start, D.. 1998. Marton heritage roadshow. -.

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Grid reference SK 8375 7865 (point)
Civil Parish TORKSEY, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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