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Summary

Five ditches and a single posthole identified during trial trenching in November 2018.

Monument Types

• DITCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Protected Status - None

Associated Finds

• ASSEMBLAGE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Events

• Trial Trenching, Eastfield Farm, Winteringham (Ref: EFFE 18)

Full description

Five ditches and a single posthole identified during trial trenching in support of a planning application for a proposed new agricultural building to the north of Eastfield Farm, Winteringham. The ditches and posthole were identified in three of five trenches excavated.

Within Trench 3 a single undated ditch orientated northeast-southwest was recorded at the northern extent of the trench. This ditch had steep sides with a wide shallow concave base, and contained a single fill of a grey brown slightly silty sand. No artefacts were recovered from this feature.

Trench 4 contained three ditches. The northernmost of these entered the trench from the east and terminated. It was shallow with a concave base and a greyish brown silty sand fill with occasional gravels. No artefacts were recovered from the northernmost ditch.

The remaining two ditches within Trench 4 crossed the trench on an east-west alignment. The northernmost of these was steep sided with a flattish base and contained a sherd of Nene Valley pottery. The southernmost trench was more gentle in profile and its fill contained a sherd of Roman greyware pottery and two fragments of burnt mammal bone.

A northwest-southeast aligned ditch and a posthole were identified within Trench 5. The ditch's single fill comprised a slightly silty sand with gravel inclusions from which a sherd of Roman greyware pottery and three large animal bone were recovered. The posthole was rectangular in plan with vertical sides and a shallow concave base. Its fill comprise a mid orange brown silty sand with gravel inclusions. [1]

<1> Lane, A., 2018, Proposed Agricultural Building/Grain Store, Eastfield Farm, Winteringham, North Lincolnshire (REPORT - INTERIM, RESEARCH, SPECIALIST, ETC). SLS7999.

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