Monument record MLI82125 - Iron Age pit cluster, south of Mill Lane

Summary

Iron Age pit cluster, south of Mill Lane

Type and Period (1)

  • (Iron Age - 800 BC? to 42 AD?)

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  • None recorded

Full Description

PRN 35434 A geophysical survey and trial trenching recorded a cluster of pits containing middle Iron Age pottery, animal bone and worked flint (PRNs 35435 and 35436), lying within the double ditches of a trackway or droveway (PRN 35433) containing pottery of the same date and condition, animal bone and worked flint. The pits were unlikely to have been in use at the same time as the track/droveway was in use, making the dating of these features tentative at best. The pottery and flint are thought to be secondary or residual finds.{1}{2}{3} A subsequent geophysical survey detected a southwesterly continuation of the Iron Age (possibly Romano-British) trackway recorded in the earlier evaluation (PRN 35433). Its magnetic response was less well defined; traces of the flanking ditches were present, albeit fragmented. Groups of pit-like anomalies lie within the putative track, particularly towards the north eastern part of the survey. This apparent relationship may be circumstantial - the discrete features possibly being natural features or quarrying activities.{4}

Sources/Archives (4)

  •  Report: Pre-Construct Geophysics. Nov 2000. Survey on land at South Witham. SWTH00.
  •  Report: Hertfordshire Archaeological Trust. Jan 2001. Land at South Witham. HAT498.
  •  Archive: Hertfordshire Archaeological Trust. Jan 2001. Land at South Witham. LCNCC 2001.16.
  •  Report: Pre-Construct Geophysics. Dec 2007. Geophysical Survey: Proposed Site of Quarry, South Witham. -.

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Grid reference Centred SK 9130 1868 (124m by 110m)
Civil Parish SOUTH WITHAM, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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