On the Boundaries of Occupation: Excavations at Burringham Road, Scunthorpe and Baldwin Avenue, Bottesford, North Lincolnshire (Pre-construct Archaeology Monographs) - Softcover

Proctor, Jennifer; Taylor-Wilson, Robin; Boyer, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0954293886 ISBN 13: 9780954293888

Publisher: Pre-Construct Archaeology, 2009

Synopsis

Excavations at two sites in the southern suburbs of the modern industrial town of Scunthorpe, originally a rural landscape with a scatter of villages overlooking the River Trent and its tributary, Bottesford Beck. Finds of flint tools show that humans had been around throughout prehistory; by the late Iron Age the Burringham Road site probably lay at the southern limit of a settlement, and for much of the Roman period there is evidence of various activities, mostly agriculture-related, and including several corn-driers; perhaps there was a villa nearby. The Baldwin Avenue site shows evidence of a Middle Saxon settlement with notable artefacts being three large lead vessels of a type that seems peculiar to the region. The title of the report reflects the fact that these two sites are peripheral to larger complexes, but nevertheless provide good information about them.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pre-Construct Archaeology
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0954293886
• ISBN 13: 9780954293888
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144