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Description: | A group of seven round barrows at Butterbump Farm. None has a ditch. A further mound at TF49067236 is a natural feature. Some of the mounds have been disturbed by rabbits. Excavation of one of the barrows in 1972 produced some middle Bronze Age pottery and flints. Work continued in 1973, and finds included two cremation urns, a cremation, covered by wooden planks, an ogival dagger with three rivets of Wessex type found in a hearth, with a whetstone on top of it. {4}{10}
A magnetometry survey of the site was carried out in advance of trial trenching by the Humber Wetlands Project. Three barrows were identified by their ring ditches two of the barrows had magnetic anomalies at their centre but the nature of these features was unclear. The evidence for the ring ditches suggested that they may be filled with peat deposits. {9}
Seven known and more suspected barrows. A trench was excavated along the most northerly of the visible barrows and a nearby ditch which was revealed to be contemporary with the barrow. Flint flakes were found which probably date from the Neolithic period. Fieldwalking was undertaken in the fields adjacent to the cemetery; finds included one scraper, four cores and 28 flakes. {10} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 2200BC - 801BC | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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