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Description: | 63150
During archaeological works on the construction of a water pipeline from Bracebridge Heath to Dunston, a broad ridge was noted running parallel, about 10-25m to the west, to the hedgerow which forms the parish boundary between Waddington and Bracebridge Heath. The northern edge of the ridge appears to coincide with a 90 degree turn in the parish boundary. The area was excavated (Area B). Eight metres west of the ridge was a ditch which produced two sherds of late Iron Age and early Romano-British pottery, and first and second century pottery from later fills. There may be further ditches, as yet unknown, and so would be similar in form to the multiple-ditched systems known elsewhere in the county. It is suggested that the modern parish boundary follows a prehistoric estate or territory boundary. It seems that the ditch was subsequently deliberately back-filled at the end of the Iron Age, and may represent an attempt by the Romans to assert dominance over the local population (as at Brauncewell). It may have remained a visible landscape feature or traditional boundary, and was adopted as the parish boundary in the late Saxon period. {1}{2} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 800BC - 409BC | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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