Monument record MLI88064 - Prehistoric Flint Scatter, Crowland Farm, South Rauceby
Summary
Large scatter of prehistoric worked flints, on land to the east of Crowland Farm, South Rauceby.
Type and Period (1)
- LITHIC SCATTER (Early Mesolithic to Late Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 801 BC)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Full Description
A large scatter of prehistoric worked flints, including scrapers, flakes and cores, was found in 1954, in this area around the spring to the east of Crowland Farm.
A further collection of flints was found in the same area in 1964-5, with the assemblage including cores, scrapers, flakes, microliths, and 3 leaf-arrowheads.
A Neolithic flint axe was also found in this area in 1967. {1}{2}
Many of the flints recovered from this area in the 1960s are held by Lincoln Museum, as part of the C. Rasdall collection. The assemblage was catalogued as part of the Colonisation of Britain Project, and comprises a wide variety of tools and debitage pieces, including cores, scrapers, blades, microliths, microburins and piercers, thought to range in date from the Mesolithic to late Bronze Age. {3}
Systematic field walking was conducted on this land to the east of Crowland Farm in 2000. The field walking retrieved a large number of flint implements and debitage dating to between the early Neolithic and late Bronze Age. The tools included tanged and barbed arrowheads, leaf arrowheads, cores and range of scrapers. The implements appeared to be concentrated towards the north-east of the survey area. {4}
More worked flints and flint flakes were found during further field walking in 2002. {5}
Sources/Archives (5)
- <1> SLI2344 Index: Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey Card Index. SK 94 NE: 6.
- <2> SLI2881 Index: Lincolnshire County Council. Sites and Monuments Record Card Index. SK 94 NE: C, T.
- <3> SLI13825 Index: Wessex Archaeology. 2012. The Colonisation of Britain Project. 592, 13452, 13455, 13459.
- <4> SLI10250 Report: Grantham Archaeology Group. 2001. Fieldwalking at Crowland Farm, South Rauceby. -.
- <5> SLI12924 Report: Grantham Archaeology Group. 2003. Crowland Farm, Ancaster: Field Walking and Metal Detecting. -.
Map
Location
| Grid reference | Centred SK 996 455 (258m by 335m) Estimated from Sources |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | NORTH RAUCEBY, NORTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE |
| Civil Parish | SOUTH RAUCEBY, NORTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Record last edited
Aug 18 2022 3:22PM
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