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| Name: | BURIALS FROM BURTON HILL TOP QUARRY |
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| HER Number: | MLI50558 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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Summary
BURIALS FROM BURTON HILL TOP QUARRY
| Grid Reference: | SK 964 746 |
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| Map Sheet: | SK97SE |
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| Parish: | BURTON, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Full description
The site of an inhumation cemetery - possibly Roman? White's Directory of 1882 records 'in excavations for stone at Burton Hill Top in 1864, an oval grave was discovered containing a great number of human bones of all sizes and also twelve stone coffins: in 1870 three other coffins were dug up made of burnt clay'. {1}
<1> SMR FILE, SK 97 SE: A,1930, PHILLIPS, C.W. (Index). SLI2938.
<2> Eleanor Scott, 1993, A Gazetteer of Roman Villas in Britain, p.119 (Bibliographic Reference). SLI8698.
Monument Types
- BURIAL (Unknown date)
- CEMETERY (Unknown date)
Associated Finds
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Index: SMR FILE. BURTON. SK 97 SE: A,1930, PHILLIPS, C.W.. |
| <2> | Bibliographic Reference: Eleanor Scott. 1993. A Gazetteer of Roman Villas in Britain. p.119. |
Related records
| MLI52292 | Related to: BURTON HILL TOP QUARRY (Monument) |
| MLI50557 | Related to: POSSIBLE ROMAN VILLA OR SETTLEMENT SITE, BURTON CLIFF FARM (Monument) |
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