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Description: | PRN 60334
A geophysical survey and evaluation was carried out to the west of Boilingwells Farm. In Field 3 a circular mound was recorded during the magnetometer survey, visible on the ground as a slight rise on the crest of the hill. A trench was excavated across the northern half of the mound revealing three phases of activity. The earliest phase consisted of three east to west aligned linear mound-like features which may represent either a barrow mound and two contemporary banks (the banks divided by a single ditch) or occupation layers and/or features of unknow date, form and function, or features present within and contemporary with the identifiable barrow phase. The second phase consists of a mound constructed from turves, sealing the first phase of activity, and is thought to represent the mound of a c.40m diameter round barrow. A bank, stratigraphically contemporary with the mound, lay up against it. Beyond the bank a shallow 4m wide ditch was present and a low 2m wide bank skirted the outer edge of this ditch. A third phase of occupation was thought to have occurred in the Roman period.{1}{2} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 2200BC - 801BC | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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