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Description: | 62672
The Nottinghamshire/Lincolnshire county boundary at Gallows Nooking Common is marked by an intermittent low bank. This bank is undated, although Iron Age, Romano-British and post medieval pottery have been recovered from it during evaluation work in 1991-1992 and 2001 (see 62669). To the south east side of the bank were two phases of ditch from one of which 10 sherds of Iron Age pottery were recovered, and Iron Age and medieval pottery from the other. One has been interpreted as being Iron Age, and the other medieval. During the excavation of the 2001 evaluation trench a further stretch of ditch parallel to the bank was identified. The upper fill of the earliest phase of the ditch contained a large portion of the base of an Iron Age vessel, with indications that it may have been deliberately placed. The evidence closely matches that from the previous evaluation trenches, the Iron Age assemblage raises the possibility of symbolic/ritual placements within an important territorial boundary feature, and/or proximity to a significant settlement of that date. It is suggestsed that the posisble bank and ditch system perhaps represents a sequence of construction of territorial boundaries from the Iron Age to the Anglo-Saxon or medieval period, although no direct association can be demonstrated. The Roman phase may be related to the Norton Disney Roman villa. Other Iron Age features were identified during the evaluation. {1} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 800BC - 42BC | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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