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Description: | A plain ditched circular earthwork, ridge and furrow crosses the ring and so it is probably not old.{1}
A large ditched ringwork with traces of both inner and outer banks, in a prominent position, but is overlooked by higher ground to the immediate north, west and south. It overlies ridge and furrow. The interior holds vast quantity of iron slag etc, the earth shows evidence of intense burning. Fragments of pottery (possibly late medieval) was found. The finds suggest this is a bloomery or iron smelting site, but a better position would be closer to water, and the almost perfect circular earthwork has hitherto never been discovered on bloomery sites.{1}
The impression of an earthwork overlying ridge and furrow was false as the site seems to be Romano-British. {4}{6}
The site was visited by Jane Cowgill who reported that the site has been extensively ploughed and seeded, and so no finds were made. There are signs of a circular ditch with an inner bank. {7}
The site lies within a ring ditch. Fieldwalking in the 1970s showed a dense scatter of slag and a few Romano-British sherds. Before ploughing in the 1970s ridge and furrow survived (Cowgill, pers comm), but this is now ploughed out entirely and the bloomery site is likely to have suffered the same fate. At the time of the field visit it was under crop, so could not be inspected. No earthworks or remnants of ridge and furrow were visible: one piece of dense, non-porous slag found at SK 9906 3135. {9} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 43 - 409 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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