Monument record MLI43599 - Aswardby Romano-British Settlement
Summary
Late prehistoric and Romano-British settlement, to the north of Aswardby.
Type and Period (6)
- SETTLEMENT (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC? to 409 AD)
- TEMPLE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- ENCLOSURE (Undated)
- HUT CIRCLE (Undated)
- ARTEFACT SCATTER (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- ROADWAY (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status/Designation
Full Description
A late prehistoric (Iron Age) and Romano-British settlement site at Aswardby, including cropmark enclosures, hut circles, trackways, and a temple. The site is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. {1}{2}{3}{4}{5}
The scale and morphology of the extensive site visible in cropmarks, at Aswardby, suggests it is a Romano-British settlement of a similar site to those at Nettleton or Ludford, for example. It shows the characteristic accretion of enclosures along a network of unmetalled roadways typical of other such settlements. It covers about 20 hectares and there is a possible temple enclosure where the lanes in the settlement fork. A sparse scatter of Roman greyware pottery and a mortarium rim fragment dated from about AD250 to AD350, during a walk over the field in 1993. {6}
A watching brief on a drainage pipe trench conducted in 2009 revealed a series of five north-south aligned ditches at the southern end of the settlement. Roman pottery dating to the late 1st to early 2nd Century AD was recovered from three of the ditches. {7}{8}
Sources/Archives (8)
- <1> SLI4067 Scheduling Record: HBMC. AM 7. SAM 292.
- <2> SLI3613 Map: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1992-1996. Lincolnshire National Mapping Programme. TF3775: LI.29.14.1-9.
- <3> SLI193 Aerial Photograph: 1946-98. RCHME. 5167/26; 2924/16.
- <4> SLI173 Aerial Photograph: 1945-84. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY COLLECTION. ZW71-2, 81 (1959).
- <5> SLI173 Aerial Photograph: 1945-84. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY COLLECTION. ABK67 (1960).
- <6> SLI10965 Article in Monograph: Dilwyn Jones. 1998. 'Romano-British settlements on the Lincolnshire Wolds', in Lincolnshire's Archaeology from the Air. pp.69-71, figs.2-3.
- <7> SLI17987 Report: Naomi Field Archaeological Consultancy. 2017. Aswardby House Farm, Aswardby: Archaeological Observation and Recording. NFAC Site Code: HFA09.
- <8> SLI17988 Archive: Naomi Field Archaeological Consultancy. 2009. Aswardby House Farm, Aswardby: Archaeological Observation and Recording. LCNCC: 2009.41.
Map
Location
| Grid reference | Centred TF 3786 7062 (839m by 810m) Estimated from sources |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | ASWARDBY, EAST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE |
Related Monuments/Buildings (0)
Related Events/Activities (2)
- Event - Intervention: Aswardby House Farm, Aswardby (ELI14074)
- Event - Survey: Walk over the Aswardby settlement site (ELI11200)
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Record last edited
May 13 2024 4:00PM
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