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| Name: | Causeway to the north of Barlings Abbey |
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| HER Number: | MLI83326 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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Summary
Causeway to the north of Barlings Abbey
| Grid Reference: | TF 085 738 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF07SE |
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| Parish: | BARLINGS, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Full description
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It is suggested that there was an early church on the island of Oxney on which the Premonstratensian Abbey of Barlings (54215) was founded in 1154. The island of Oxney is joined to the high ground to the north by a causeway about 1km long. An important group of spearheads, spurs and stirrups were discovered during road works on the causeway and bridge established by the Abbey at Langworth. It is possible that this causeway formed part of the ritual and symbolic landscape possibly dating as far back as the Bronze Age and extending into the sixteenth century. However, there is little evidence to support this theory, and it remains very much conjectural. {1}
<1> David Stocker and Paul Everson, 2003, ‘The Straight and Narrow Way: Fenland Causeways and the Conversion of the Landscape in the Witham Valley, Lincolnshire’, in The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD300-1300, pp.271-88 (Article in Monograph). SLI8111.
Monument Types
- CAUSEWAY (Early Bronze Age to Medieval - 2200 BC to 1539 AD)
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Article in Monograph: David Stocker and Paul Everson. 2003. ‘The Straight and Narrow Way: Fenland Causeways and the Conversion of the Landscape in the Witham Valley, Lincolnshire’, in The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD300-1300. pp.271-88. |
Related records
| MLI52904 | Related to: Fiskerton Causeway (Monument) |
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