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Summary

Some evidence for pre middle Bronze Age activity on an excavated site in Billingborough parish

Full description

PRN 35513
During excavations on a Bronze Age to Iron Age site in Billingborough parish some evidence for earlier activity was found. A single sherd of late Neolithic Peterborough-style pottery was recognised as well as some sherds of early Bronze Age Food Vessel and Collared Urn. There were also finds of a jet bead and a fragment of stone axe-hammer. The finds were unstratified.
There was also a grave which may have been a disturbed early Bronze Age burial. There was a second much disturbed inhumation burial about 40 metres north-east of the first grave.
The flint assemblage from the excavation may relate, in part, to the middle to late Bronze Age occupation of the site (PRN 33304) but it is likely that the majority of the flints are late Neolithic to early Bronze Age and reflect activity on the site before the occupation phases. Consequently, the flint assemblage from the excavation is recorded in this monument record.
The ratio of debitage to retouched flakes in the assemblage suggests that, although some flint knapping had taken place on site, the working of flint took place elsewhere. {1} {2}

<1> Peter Chowne, Rosamund Cheal and A.P. Fitzpatrick, 2001, Excavations at Billingborough, Lincolnshire, 1975-78: a Bronze-Iron Age settlement and saltern site, pp.7, 26-31, 89. (Bibliographic Reference). SLI7301.

<2> South Lincolnshire Archaeological Unit, 1996, Excavations at Billingborough 1975-78, LCNCC 173.1996 (Archive). SLI7302.

Monument Types

• ARTEFACT SCATTER (Middle Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
• INHUMATION (Early Bronze Age - 2200 BC? to 1501 BC?)

Associated Finds

• BLADE (Middle Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
• CORE (Middle Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
• FABRICATOR (Middle Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
• FLAKE (Middle Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
• HAMMERSTONE (Middle Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
• KNIFE (Middle Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
• POINT (Middle Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
• SCRAPER (TOOL) (Middle Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
• SHERD (Middle Neolithic to Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
• AXEHEAD (Early Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 1501 BC)
• BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 801 BC)
• BEAD (Early Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 1501 BC)
• HUMAN REMAINS (Early Bronze Age - 2200 BC? to 1501 BC?)
• SHERD (Early Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 1501 BC)

Associated Events

• Excavation at Billingborough

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