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Lincolnshire HER

Name:Bronze Age pottery found to the south west of Willoughby Walks
HER Number:MLI91121
Type of record:Find Spot

Summary

Bronze Age pottery found to the south west of Willoughby Walks

Grid Reference:TF 028 420
Map Sheet:TF04SW
Parish:SILK WILLOUGHBY, NORTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

Full description

PRN 65165
Four middle Bronze Age sherds were found with other unidentified sherds during fieldwalking. (Note - the location given for this find is approximate.) {1}
A scatter of ten Bronze Age sherds, including one with finger tip impressions, was found "in a field almost at the western extremity of the parish, close to Kelby Plantation". This may refer to this site, especially if some of the unidentified sherds were later identified as Bronze Age. {2}


<1> Silk Willoughby Archaeology Group, 1993-98, Fieldwalking in Silk Willoughby, No 36 (Report). SLI11658.

<2> SIMMONS, B.B., 2000, The Archaeology of Silk Willoughby: An Account of the Field Survey 1994-1999, p 33 (Bibliographic Reference). SLI11635.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Middle Bronze Age - 1500 BC to 1001 BC)

Associated Finds

  • SHERD (Middle Bronze Age - 1500 BC to 1001 BC)

Associated Events

  • Fieldwalking in Silk Willoughby parish

Sources and further reading

<1>Report: Silk Willoughby Archaeology Group. 1993-98. Fieldwalking in Silk Willoughby. No 36.
<2>Bibliographic Reference: SIMMONS, B.B.. 2000. The Archaeology of Silk Willoughby: An Account of the Field Survey 1994-1999. p 33.