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Description: | During a watching brief, a layer of crushed limestone and limestone rubble was discovered sealing a peat deposit. The road required several thicknesses of rubble to provide a solid foundation above the peat. It is thought that, as this road skirts the historic settlement core of Washingborough (on higher ground to the south), it may be a late medieval or post-medieval 'bypass'. This part of the fen was drained very late (late 18th/early 19th c.), but the road was certainly in place by the early 19th c., when the OS First Edition One Inch map was prepared. It is unlikely that an early medieval road linking fen-edge settlements would have been sited on the fen itself. A route along the limestone is more likely, and no obvious alternative position for an east-west road has been identified. It is postulated that the Roman Car Dyke improved local drainage so much that a road along its landward side was possible by medieval times.{1}{2} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 1400 - 1900 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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