Source/Archive record (Report) SLI17223 - Geophysical Survey Report: Land at Rectory Farm, Grantham

Title Geophysical Survey Report: Land at Rectory Farm, Grantham
Author/Originator
Date/Year 2012
HER Report no. 7003
GSB Prospection Ltd 2012/61

Abstract/Summary

Report on a magnetometry survey conducted on land at Rectory Farm, Grantham, to inform the proposed construction of a residential development. A multiphase settlement was encountered in the north of the site, comprising a dense group of rectilinear anomalies containing at least three possible ring ditches to the east, and a more dispersed group of similar features further west, which appears to continue beyond the limit of the survey area. The western group included a concentric double ring ditch. Stretching southwards across the site from these settlements was a large rectilinear land division with a possible pit alignment at its southern end, suggested to be of Bronze Age date. Both north-south and east-west aligned ridge and furrow was noted across the entire survey area. Post-Medieval quarries were also observed close to Rectory Farm and towards the southern end of the site.

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Referenced Monuments (5)

  • Bronze Age to Early Iron Age Field System (Monument)
  • Post-medieval quarry, Barrowby (Monument)
  • Prehistoric cropmark pit alignment, north of A52 (Monument)
  • Ridge and Furrow, Rectory Farm, Grantham (Monument)
  • Romano-British settlement activity at Rectory Farm, Grantham (Monument)

Referenced Events (1)

  • Magnetometry Survey at land at Rectory Farm, Grantham

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Jun 13 2025 2:31PM

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