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| Name: | Brewer's Grave |
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| HER Number: | MLI30085 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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Summary
Brewer's Grave
| Grid Reference: | SK 846 337 |
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| Map Sheet: | SK83SW |
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| Parish: | WOOLSTHORPE, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Full description
A small mound where the post inclosure road to Woolsthorpe crosses the Sewstern Lane, is traditionally the grave where a brewer who committed suicide was buried at crossroads with a stake through his heart, but was then removed and buried elsewhere, another version called him a baker, therefore it is possibly a late story attached to a far older name which meant the grave on the bruery or heath… . {1}
<1> 1919, LINCOLNSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES, XV (Serial). SLI3873.
Monument Types
- MOUND (Undated)
- BARROW? (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 801 BC)
- ROUND BARROW? (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 801 BC)
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Serial: 1919. LINCOLNSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. XV. |
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