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Description: | PRN 50634
A RECTILINEAR CROPMARK COMPLEX LOCATED ON A STEEPLY SLOPING WOLDS VALLEY SPUR, FIRST RECORDED AS FAINT GERMINATION MARKS IN BARE SOIL IN THE WINTER OF 1986. PHOTOGRAPHS DURING THE SUMMER OF 1991 IN A RIPENING CEREAL CROP OF THE MAIN COMPLEX PRODUCED ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WHICH LENDS WEIGHT TO THE ORIGINAL SUGGESTION THAT THE SITE REPRESENTS A ROMANO-BRITISH VILLA COMPLEX. ROMANO-BRITISH POTSHERDS ARE RECORDED FROM THE FIELD. {1}{2}{3}
THE CROPMARK INTERPRETED AS A LONG BARROW BY NMP (52391) HAS ALSO BEEN INTERPRETED AS AN IRON AGE HUT CIRCLE, WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN PART OF A FARMSTEAD, LATER EVOLVING INTO THE ROMAN SETTLEMENT. {4}
The Swinhope site is an example of a settlement of nucleated form, with well-defined limits, that lacks the strict rectilinearity of villa sites but which may, nevertheless, be attributed villa status. It occupies a prominent position on the slopes of a spur on the east side of the valley of the Waithe Beck. Cropmarks of intersecting linear field boundaries are found to the east and several undated enclosure groups, thought to be Roman, have been recorded within a radius of 600m to the north and south. Romano-British potsherds have also been recovered in the area. {5} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 43 - 409 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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