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Name: | ROMAN ARTEFACTS FOUND, COUNTHORPE AND CREETON |
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HER Number: | MLI33674 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Summary
ROMAN ARTEFACTS FOUND, COUNTHORPE AND CREETON
Grid Reference: | SK 998 205 |
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Map Sheet: | SK92SE |
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Parish: | COUNTHORPE AND CREETON, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Full description
An Iron Age triangular clay loom-weight, bronze pennanular brooch, hand-made shelly black pottery, a small iron knife and Roman wheel-turned pottery of probably pre-Flavian date were found in a silted ditch exposed (from SK99762055 to SK99832068){3} in the quarry face at Counthorpe. The finds, which are now in the City and County Museum, Lincoln, probably date between 27-75 AD.{1}{2}{3} The ditch obliterated by further quarrying; no more recent finds are known to the quarry workers. Material in the City and County Museum, Lincoln Acc. No. 1.54. {1}{5}
<1> OS CARD INDEX, SK92SE2,1965, D.A. (Index). SLI2454.
<2> THOMPSON, F.H., 1955, 'Archaeological Notes for 1954' in Lincolnshire Architectural and Archaeological Society Reports and Papers, VOL 6 NS (Article in Serial). SLI510.
<3> Baker, F. T., OS 6 INCH SERIES, SK92SE (Map). SLI3644.
<4> SMR FILE, SK92SE:C,1954, - (Index). SLI2973.
<5> City and County Museum Collection, ACC. NO. 1.54 (Artefact). SLI8.
Monument Types
- DITCH (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
Associated Finds
- SHERD (Roman - 43 AD to 99 AD)
Sources and further reading
<1> | Index: OS CARD INDEX. COUNTHORPE AND CREETON. SK92SE2,1965, D.A.. |
<2> | Article in Serial: THOMPSON, F.H.. 1955. 'Archaeological Notes for 1954' in Lincolnshire Architectural and Archaeological Society Reports and Papers. VOL 6 NS. |
<3> | Map: Baker, F. T.. OS 6 INCH SERIES. SK92SE. |
<4> | Index: SMR FILE. COUNTHORPE AND CREETON. SK92SE:C,1954, -. |
<5> | Artefact: City and County Museum Collection. ACC. NO. 1.54. |
Related records
MLI33673 | Related to: IRON AGE ARTEFACTS FOUND, COUNTHORPE AND CREETON (Monument) |
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