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| Name: | BURGH BANKS, OLD SOMERBY |
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| HER Number: | 34015 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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Summary
BURGH BANKS, OLD SOMERBY
| Grid Reference: | SK 956 330 |
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| Map Sheet: | SK93SE |
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| Parish: | OLD SOMERBY, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Full description
A RECENTLY 1980s DISCOVERED SITE AT OLD SOMERBY, NEAR GRANTHAM, KNOWN LOCALLY AS BURGH OR BOROUGH BANKS, IS UNDATED BUT IN PLAN IS SIMILAR TO THE IRON AGE DEFENDED ENCLOSURE AT TATTERSHALL THORPE. PARTS OF THE SITE ARE PRESERVED AS EARTHWORKS IN PASTURE. {1}
ABOUT TWO THIRDS OF A ROUGHLY CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE REMAINED IN 1980 WHEN IT WAS SURVEYED BY THE TLA. AN EARTHWORK BANK, WITH PART OF AN EXTERNAL DITCH SURVIVING AT THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST, WITH A POSSIBLE TERMINAL FOR AN ENTRANCE AT THE EAST. SLIGHT TRACES OF AN INTERNAL SUBDIVIDING BANK AND DITCH AT RIGHT ANGLES ARE PROBABLY ASSOCIATED WITH MODERN FIELD BOUNDARIES RATHER THAN ORIGINAL FEATURES. A BANK RUNNING SOUTH FROM THE EAST SIDE OF THE ENCLOSURE ALSO APPEARS TO BE A LATER FEATURE SINCE IT INTERRUPTS THE LINE OF THE DITCH. {1}, DIAMETER 225M
Monument Types
- HILLFORT? (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- RINGWORK? (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Article in serial: CHOWNE, P., GIRLING, M. AND GRIEG, J.. 1986. PROCEEDINGS OF THE PREHISTORIC SOCIETY. Vol. 52 p.184; Figs. 10, 11 |
| <2> | Article in monograph: MAY, J.. 1993. AN HISTORICAL ATLAS OF LINCOLNSHIRE. p.13 |
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