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Description: | SITE EXCAVATED IN 1913, NO REPORT. POTTERY IN MUSEUM OF SPALDING GENTS SOCIETY FROM EXCAVATION, INCLUDING TWO SHERDS UNCLASSIFIED BY HAWKS AS IA 'A' PROBABLY CAME FROM OLD LAND SURFACE. REST OF POTTERY EXAMINED BY G DUNNING DATED 11TH TO 18TH CENTURY. EVIDENCE OF POTTERY AND FORMER EXISTENCE OF MOUND IS SUGGESTIVE OF MOTTE. THE MOUND AND A POSSIBLE OUTER DITCH SHOW AS SOILMARKS ON AP's.{1}{2}{3}
AREA UNDER CROP. LINCOLN AND SPALDING MUSEUM SAY THEY HAVE NO MATERIAL FROM THIS SITE.{1} IN SPALDING MUSEUM ARE SOME FINDS OBTAINED DURING AN EXCAVATION OF THIS MOUND - PIECES OF RB COARSE BLACK AND GREY POT, SOME GLAZED MEDIEVAL WARE, PIG AND SHEEP BONES, HUMAN TIBIA, AN OYSTER SHELL AND SOME CHARCOAL. MAY BE A MEDIEVAL SITE SUPERIMPOSED ON RB OCCUPATION. CWP 27.3.31. POTTERY SEEN AT LM SEPT 1954. NOT RB, BUT APPARENTLY LATE SAXON IN TWO GROUPS:
1) HAND-MADE VESSELS, SIMPLE RIMS, SHELLY WARE.
2) WHEEL-MADE POTS, THETFORD TYPES, GREY SANDY WARE AND FINE GLAZED SHERDS IN CREAM WARE, ONE WITH STAMP. F.H.T. {4}{5}
SITE MARKED ON OLD MAP AS 'TUMULUS'. CONSIDERABLE MOUND EVIDENTLY BUT NO MOAT MENTIONED. EXCAVATED SEPT 1912. ACCOUNT OF EXCAVATION IN SPALDING GENTS SOCIETY MINUTE BOOK, 1913.{6}
(PLAN AND SECTION).{8}
(MAP).{9}
H HALLAM CONSIDERS IT A SITE OF ORIGINAL MANOR OF DE MOULTON FAMILY.{6}. SHERDS OF POTTERY FROM THE SITE MENTIONED IN THE SPALDING GENTS SOC NOTED BY S J HALLAM. THESE NOTED AS ?IA, SN AND AS LATE 15TH CENTURY. SEEN BY H HEALEY IN 1972: INCLUDE SHELLY, STAMFORD, TORKSEY-THETFORD TYPE, AND BOURNE A COOKING POT. ONE RARE STAMFORD STAMP.{6} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 410 - 1065 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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