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Description: | PRN 43169
PROBABLE NEOLITHIC CROPMARK LONG BARROW. {1}
THE LONG BARROW IS SITUATED ON THE SUMMIT OF A BROAD, FLAT-TOPPED SPUR, OVERLOOKING THE HEAD OF A PROMINENT DRY-VALLEY, WITH THE LONG AXIS RUNNING PARALLEL TO THE CONTOURS. THE NGR IS GIVEN AS TF 3161 7931. IT IS ALIGNED ESE-WNW. IT IS AN OBLONG ENCLOSURE WITH A STRAIGHT EAST END, AND CONVEX WEST END. TRACES OF RIDGE AND FURROW CULTIVATION RUN TRAVERSELY ACROSS THE LINE OF THE BARROW. FIELDWALKING REVEALED NO SURFACE TRACES, BUT YIELDED ONE FLINT BLADE, POSSIBLY SERRATED (EARLY NEOLITHIC), AND A PYRAMIDAL CORE FOR BLADELETS (PROBABLY LATE MESOLITHIC-EARLY NEOLITHIC). {2}, LENGTH 52M, WIDTH 16M, HTM 121M
The monument is scehduled as a Neolithic long barrow, 680m west of Maidenwell House. {3} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 4000BC - 2351BC | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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