Monument record MLI92041 - Middle Bronze Age activity, Whitfield Land, Langtoft
Summary
Middle Bronze Age activity, Whitfield Land, Langtoft
Type and Period (3)
- PIT (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 801 BC)
- LINEAR FEATURE (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 801 BC)
- POST HOLE (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 801 BC)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Full Description
PRN 37120
Excavations undertaken between May and July 2007 revealed middle Bronze Age activity on the site. Three linear features were excavated. One contained middle Bronze Age pottery and another contained burnt domestic material including pottery, bone and mussel shells at one end and the fragments of eight pottery vessels, charcoal, burnt stone and bone at the other. Along the linear features were pits and/or wells, the majority containing middle Bronze Age pottery and dumped, burnt domestic debris. The remains of a degraded wooden object, perhaps a ladder, was found within one pit or well. Six post holes and six pits were also found, one containing animal bone. {1}{2}
A shell necklace of three perforated cockle shells was found in a waterlogged pit-well, along with quantities of Deverel Rimbury pottery and a log ladder. Langtoft is one of the very few prehistoric sites in the region to have evidence of such middle to late Bronze Age shell-only necklace settings and these are currently (2015) unparalleled in southern Britain. {3}
Sources/Archives (3)
- <1> SLI12230 Report: Cambridge Archaeological Unit. 2008. Excavations at Langtoft, Lincolnshire: The Whitfield Land. -.
- <2> SLI12231 Archive: Cambridge Archaeological Unit. 2008. Excavations at Langtoft, Lincolnshire: The Whitfield Land. LCNCC 2009.180.
- <3> SLI15446 Article in Serial: Evans, Christopher. 2015. 'Wearing environment and making islands: Britain’s Bronze Age inland North Sea' in Antiquity. vol.89, issue 347, pp.1110-24.
Map
Location
| Grid reference | Centred TF 14712 13754 (125m by 125m) |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | LANGTOFT, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE |
Related Monuments/Buildings (3)
Related Events/Activities (1)
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Record last edited
Oct 6 2021 2:48PM
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