Monument record MLI84497 - Romano-British settlement adjacent to Mareham Lane, Ashby de la Launde and Bloxholm
Summary
Romano-British settlement adjacent to Mareham Lane, Ashby de la Launde and Bloxholm
Type and Period (5)
- ENCLOSURE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FIELD BOUNDARY (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- TRACKWAY (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- SETTLEMENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FARMSTEAD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Full Description
PRN 62791
Cropmarks of enclosures, field boundaries and trackways, forming part of a probable Late Iron Age/Roman settlement were identified by the National Mapping Programme. The cropmarks of the trackways can be seen to clearly run off Mareham Lane into the settlement area. {1}
Various artefacts were found by a metal detector user. These include approximately 150 bronze coins, a small copper alloy votive axe-head, a stud-head brooch and the end of a steelyard arm. The material is said to be scattered over quite a large area. {2}
There are numerous Romano-British finds spread over one acre, with a smaller site to the north, with no surface features apparent. Additional finds include a steelyard, two second century sawfish brooches, a disc brooch with gilding and paste stone, a zoomorphic brooch in the form of a bird, a bronze dress pin, and lead weights. About 50 further coins have been found from all over the site, most badly corroded, but including a sestertius of Fountstina the elder (posthumous) 104-161 AD, a radiate bronze of Claudius II 268-270 AD, helmeted head of Constantine I 307-337, Bronze of Crispus 324-330 AD London Mint, and a bronze of Constantine II 317-337. Also found were greyware pottery, Roman tile and a piece of Samian. {3}, HTM 20M
Romano-British pottery 3th-5th century in date was found together with a lead cistern and cap of a column, which were ploughed up in November of 1951. {5}{6}
Cropmarks at TF071 522 were seen in 1946 and interpreted as a Romano-British site with a road. {7}
Possible settlement site associated with a Roman road. On the Roman road north of Sleaford, near Moor Farm, as side road extends west from the Roman road perhaps indicating there is a settlement in the vicinity that is not visible on aerial photographs.{8}
Side road leaving Mareham Lane.{9}
Mareham Lane revealed as parallel ditches on an aerial photograph. Also revealed were rectangular cropmarks, presumably of Roman period.{10}
A series of aerial photographs depicting cropmarks of the settlement.{11}{12}{13}
Sources/Archives (13)
- <01> SLI3613 Map: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1992-1996. National Mapping Programme. TF 05 SE; 0652; LI.851.42.2; 43.1-3; 44.1; 45.1-2;51-2.1; 870.1.1.
- <02> SLI5070 Verbal Communication: D.W.. 1992. -.
- <03> SLI5071 Verbal Communication: D.W.. 1995. -.
- <04> SLI4588 Unpublished Document: 1995. PARISH FILE. ASHBY DE LA LAUNDE AND BLOXHOLM.
- <05> SLI2883 Index: ASHBY DE LA LAUNDE AND BLOXHOLM SMR FILE. ASHBY DE LA LAUNDE AND BLOXHOLM. TF 05 SE; AL, AK.
- <06> SLI2361 Index: OS CARD INDEX. ASHBY DE LA LAUNDE AND BLOXHOLM. TF 05 SE; 8.
- <07> SLI2883 Index: ASHBY DE LA LAUNDE AND BLOXHOLM SMR FILE. ASHBY DE LA LAUNDE AND BLOXHOLM. TF 05 SE; AM.
- <08> SLI5405 Article in Monograph: Helen Winton. 1998. 'The cropmark evidence for Prehistoric and Roman settlement in west Lincolnshire' in Lincolnshire's Archaeology from the Air. page 56, Fig 5a.3.
- <09> SLI2883 Index: ASHBY DE LA LAUNDE AND BLOXHOLM SMR FILE. ASHBY DE LA LAUNDE AND BLOXHOLM. TF 05 SE; AJ.
- <10> SLI2883 Index: ASHBY DE LA LAUNDE AND BLOXHOLM SMR FILE. ASHBY DE LA LAUNDE AND BLOXHOLM. TF 05 SE; AN.
- <11> SLI198 Aerial Photograph: HAYES, J.T.. 1953-87. RCHM. TH9(2), TH10, TH10(2), Bloxholm: 3/3, 3/4, 3/8, Ruskington: 8/3.
- <12> SLI173 Aerial Photograph: 1945-84. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY COLLECTION. AGC77, BUX065.
- <13> SLI205 Aerial Photograph: THOMSON B. 1992. 05/07/92.
Map
Location
| Grid reference | Centred TF 0702 5239 (407m by 889m) |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | ASHBY DE LA LAUNDE AND BLOXHOLM, NORTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE |
Related Monuments/Buildings (0)
Related Events/Activities (7)
- Event - Survey: Aerial photograph of land east of Moor Farm, Bloxholm (ELI7093)
- Event - Survey: Aerial photograph of land east of Moor Farm, Bloxholm (ELI7094)
- Event - Survey: Aerial photograph of land east of Moor Farm, Bloxholm (ELI7095)
- Event - Survey: Aerial photograph of land south of Moor Farm, Bloxholm (ELI7087)
- Event - Survey: Aerial photograph of land to the east of Moor Farm, Bloxholm (ELI7105)
- Event - Survey: Aerial photographs of land to the south of Moor Farm, Bloxholm (ELI7099)
- Event - Survey: Casual observation (ELI7072)
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Mar 21 2021 8:35PM
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