Monument record MLI86368 - Early Anglo-Saxon cemetery site on land west of South Cliff Farm, South Carlton
Summary
Early Anglo-Saxon cemetery site on land west of South Cliff Farm, South Carlton
Type and Period (5)
- CEMETERY (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 475 AD to 625 AD)
- CROUCHED INHUMATION (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 475 AD to 625 AD)
- EXTENDED INHUMATION (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 475 AD to 625 AD)
- CREMATION (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 475 AD to 625 AD)
- BURIAL (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 475 AD to 625 AD)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Full Description
PRN 54979
A quantity of early to middle Saxon metalwork, discovered by metal detector, was known to have come from a restricted area of a field to the west of South Cliff Farm, South Carlton. Trial trenching identified part of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, containing an urned cremation burial and three inhumation burials. The evaluation suggested that the cemetery is relatively small, probably covering no more than 0.25ha, but including both cremation and inhumation burials. The inhumation burials lay in shallow graves and were aligned east to west. They included a female, a possible male and a male and contained a range of grave goods including personal jewellery and a shield boss. The finds from the metal detector surveys and the results of the evaluation have confirmed the cemetery was in use between the late 5th and early 7th century AD. One of the inhumations truncated a shallow pit containing cremated animal bone, while another inhumation lay close to the line of a post-medieval road, which may have followed the line of a much earlier boundary and defined the limits of the cemetery. A number of machine-excavated trenches, dug to define the limits of the cemetery, failed to locate additional graves. {1}{2}{3}
The South Cliff Farm cemetery site, lying 5km north of Lincoln, is currently (2003) the most closely located Anglo-Saxon inhumation cemetery to Lincoln. It also lies in an area that, apart from the poorly dated burials at the Roman villa site at Scampton, was not previously known to contain Anglo-Saxon burials. {2}{3}
The fifth century disc brooches found on the site may well be heirloom pieces deposited in graves during the sixth or seventh century and so the cemetery may perhaps date from the sixth century rather than from the fifth. {4}
Sources/Archives (4)
- <1> SLI9449 Report: GSB Prospection Ltd. Jan 2004. Geophysical Survey Report for South Cliff Farm, South Carlton. 2003/71.
- <2> SLI9450 Report: Wessex Archaeology. May 2004. South Cliff Farm, South Carlton: An Archaeological Evaluation and an Assessment of the Results. SCSC03.
- <3> SLI9451 Archive: Wessex Archaeology. May 2004. South Cliff Farm, South Carlton: An Archaeological Evaluation and an Assessment of the Results. LCNCC 2003.304.
- <4> SLI12006 Verbal Communication: Green, Tom. 2008. Conversation with Dr Tom Green. 21/07/2008.
Map
Location
| Grid reference | Centred SK 95650 77090 (100m by 100m) |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | SOUTH CARLTON, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE |
Related Monuments/Buildings (0)
Related Events/Activities (3)
- Event - Intervention: Archaeological evaluation on land west of South Cliff Farm, South Carlton (ELI5037)
- Event - Survey: Fieldwalking on land west of South Cliff Farm, South Carlton (ELI5033)
- Event - Survey: Gradiometry survey at South Cliff Farm, South Carlton (ELI5031)
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Record last edited
Mar 21 2021 8:35PM
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