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Description: | Romano-British early 2nd century to 4th century pottery found in 1959 and 1975, in a scatter, including grey ware, grey burnished ware and tile (now in the City and County Musem), extending both sides of Tillbridge Lane. Two antoniniani of Carausius, both with the letter PAX AVG on the reverse have been found. {1}{2}
There are also pits and boundaries on either side of Tillbridge Lane. Aerial photographic evidence suggests a small rectangular enclosure or possibly a stone building, with an internal linear divisions and pits. {4}{5}{6}
The Romano-British settlement at this point on Tillbridge Lane is a ribbon development; that is it was stretched out along the road, over about 2.5km (although the buildings were not continuous for this distance), and probably did not extend further than about 100m from the road. Fragments of roof tile have been found close to the road which suggests that there were some substantial buildings in the settlement. A large quantity of pottery was collected during field walking in 1993 and 1995 including fragments of Samian pottery from Gaul, wine flagons, and amphorae (large pottery vessels for storage), Parisian ware, Dales ware, shell-gritted ware, grey ware and colour-coat wares. Fragments of pottery cheese presses used in cheese making, and spindle whorls for weaving have been found. Finds of copper and iron slag indicates that metal-working took place here, but probably not on a large scale. Bronze objects such as cosmetic implements have been recovered from the fields as well as many brooches and rings. {7} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 100 - 399 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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