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Summary

Prehistoric/Romano-British settlement site east of Greatford

Full description

PRN 30054 [This record includes information from PRN 30055 which has now been deleted.]
Settlement area, east of Greatford village. {1}

Part of the large and straggling agricultural settlement at Greatford, probably of Iron Age or Roman date. This site comprises a homestead enclosure and what appear to be stockyards with a drove road running away from it in two directions. The whole area is a complex one and there is a possibility of several overlapping periods of use. {2}{3}

An extensive, probably Roman, occupation site, connected with 30051 falls within a large area of ancient fields (see scheduled monument number 33581). There are fourteen irregular rounded enclosures, one linked by a track to a rectangular one. At TF097119 is a trackway with double right-angled bends and rectangular enclosure attached.{4}{5}{6}
Almost entirely under standing corn. Only very limited perambulation was possible and nothing else was seen. {4}{12}

The cropmarks include a small irregular circular enclosure or ring ditch, which may be a round barrow. {6}

<01> SMR FILE, TF 01 SE:Z,1980, WHITE, A.J. (Index). SLI3055.

<02> HBMC, 1978, AM 7, SAM 327 (Scheduling Record). SLI4137.

<03> J.K.S. St Joseph, 1945-79, Cambridge University Collection, JG52;VJ31,33 (Aerial Photograph). SLI175.

<04> OS CARD INDEX, TF 01 SE:17,1965, D.A. (Index). SLI2529.

<05> Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1960, A Matter of Time, - (Bibliographic Reference). SLI1057.

<06> J.K.S. St Joseph, 1945-79, Cambridge University Collection, AGB83;BPW21 (Aerial Photograph). SLI175.

<07> J.K.S. St Joseph, 1945-79, Cambridge University Collection, EA059;JG50-51;AAA41 (Aerial Photograph). SLI175.

<08> 1945-84, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY COLLECTION, VJ27;AFN81,86;AGB52;BCS33 (Aerial Photograph). SLI110.

<09> 1945-84, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY COLLECTION, BQQ059;BPW17,24 (Aerial Photograph). SLI110.

<10> 1945-84, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY COLLECTION, ABJ74;BFS13;VJ30;YE70 (Aerial Photograph). SLI110.

<11> 1946-98, RCHME, 943/32,1975, (Aerial Photograph). SLI193.

<12> Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1992-1996, National Mapping Programme, TF 01 SE, LI.788.49 1995 (Map). SLI3613.

<13> Helen Winton, 1998, 'The cropmark evidence for Prehistoric and Roman settlement in west Lincolnshire' in Lincolnshire's Archaeology from the Air, p.54, fig.5a.6 (Article in Monograph). SLI5405.

Monument Types

• ENCLOSURE (Undated)
• RING DITCH (Undated)
• ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 801 BC)
• FARMSTEAD (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 409 AD)
• SETTLEMENT (Late Iron Age - 100 BC to 42 AD)

Protected Status

• SHINE
• Scheduled Monument

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