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Summary

Middle Bronze Age activity, Whitfield Land, Langtoft

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}

<1> Cambridge Archaeological Unit, 2008, Excavations at Langtoft, Lincolnshire: The Whitfield Land, - (Report). SLI12230.

<2> Cambridge Archaeological Unit, 2008, Excavations at Langtoft, Lincolnshire: The Whitfield Land, LCNCC 2009.180 (Archive). SLI12231.

<3> Evans, Christopher, 2015, 'Wearing environment and making islands: Britain’s Bronze Age inland North Sea' in Antiquity, vol.89, issue 347, pp.1110-24 (Article in Serial). SLI15446.

Monument Types

• LINEAR FEATURE (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 801 BC)
• PIT (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 801 BC)
• POST HOLE (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 801 BC)

Associated Finds

• ANIMAL REMAINS (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 801 BC)
• BRIQUETAGE? (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 801 BC)
• LADDER? (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 801 BC)
• LOOMWEIGHT? (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 801 BC)
• MUSSEL SHELL (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 801 BC)
• MARINE MOLLUSCA REMAINS (Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 1500 BC to 801 BC)
• NECKLACE (Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 1500 BC to 801 BC)
• SHERD (Middle Bronze Age - 1500 BC to 1001 BC)

Associated Events

• Archaeological excavation at Whitfield Land, Langtoft

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