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TF 2523 1807 INCLUDES A SLIGHTLY MOUNDED SITE WITH A DARK SOIL STAIN. SMALL BRIQUETAGE FRAGMENTS AND IRON AGE POTTERY (OF A PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN FABRIC) FOUND. THE SITE IS PARTLY BURIED BY SILT LAIN BY THE MEDIEVAL RIVER WELLAND. IT ALSO PRODUCED BRIQUETAGE AND DOMESTIC POTTERY OF RECOGNISED MIDDLE IRON AGE DATE. THE SPREADS OF BRIQUETAGE ARE GENERALLY C.30M IN DIAMETER, AND A NUMBER OF THESE WERE SLIGHTLY MOUNDED. THEY REMAIN LARGELY PROTECTED BY SILTS FROM A NOW DEFUNCT COURSE OF THE WELLAND. ALSO AT TF 2526 1812 THERE WAS POTTERY, BONE AND BRIQUETAGE IN A DARK SOIL STAIN ON A PRONOUNCED MOUND. LOCATED CLOSE TO THE EXTENT OF THE MEDIEVAL SILT PRODUCED BY THE RIVER WELLAND. SOME SMALL FRAGMENTS OF STONE WERE ALSO PRESENT. ALSO AT TF 2521 1811 (COW 26) - FINDS OF BRIQUETAGE, POTTERY AND ANIMAL BONE ON A DARK SOIL STAIN ON A SLIGHT MOUND. ABUNDANT BRIQUETAGE WITH HOUR-GLASS SUPPORTS. LOCATED ON NORTHERN FLANK OF PREHISTORIC RIVER WELLAND. THE POTTERY IS MIDDLE IRON AGE. {1} THIS SITE WAS EXCAVATED IN 1992. THE SITES LIE WITHIN 100M ALONGSIDE ON EXTINCT CREEK. THE SITES CAN BE SEEN AS DARK SOIL STAINS AND SLIGHT MOUNDS. THE MOUNDING RESULTS FROM THE CONSOLIDATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL DEPOSITS ON THE LEVEES OF THE CREEKS, ELSEWHERE THE LEVEES HAVE ERODED. A TRENCH WAS OPENED THROUGH TWO OF THE SITES. MUCH BRIQUETAGE, AND A DAMAGED GULLY, PROBABLY A DRIP GULLY WAS IDENTIFIED; A STRUCTURE HAS NEVER BEEN FOUND BEFORE ON THIS TYPE OF SITE. THERE WAS ALSO A HEARTH WITH CHARRED ORGANIC REMAINS, AND WITH A LOW CLAY WALL. SOUTH OF THIS MUCH DOMESTIC POTTERY AND BONE WAS FOUND. {2}, HTM 3M
Fieldwork was carried out by the Fenland Survey in 1992 at circa TF2526 1812. Excavation took place over two of the three identified mounds (COW 25 and 26). Mound COW 25 revealed the plough-damaged remains of a hearth/oven, measuring 3m by 1m. Two parallel linear features may have been flues, and were infilled with fragments of fired clay containers, supports and amorphous baked clay material thought to be from a collapsed superstructure. A shallow depression at the north end was infilled with similar material and may have been a stoke pit. A pennanular ditch lay on the mound, thought not to be contemporary with the hearth/oven, suggesting apparent phasing which may be borne out by fabric differences in the briquetage. A second length of possible pennanular ditch lay on COW 26 and had no briquetage infill, suggesting it was in use prior to saltmaking on the site. The briquetage indicated that production and processing were taking place on the site. The pottery assemblage was domestic and included scored ware. The animal bone suggested on-site breeding of cattle, pig and sheep. Environmental data indicated a saltmarsh environment adjacent to tidal creeks.{3} | Subjects: | General Archaeology Salt Making Site | Temporal: | 800BC - 42BC | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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