This is an Iron Age and Romano-British enclosure complex on the Lincolnshire Wolds/Marsh fringe south of a village (the coordinates place it in the area around Tetney/North Cotes/Marshchapel in NE Lincolnshire). Sites of this character in the region typically comprise ditched rectilinear enclosures with associated trackways and fields, occupied from the later Iron Age through into the 2nd–4th centuries AD, functioning as small mixed-farming settlements.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Such enclosures represent the basic unit of the rural economy of the civitas Corieltauvorum, supplying grain, livestock and salt (the latter very important in this coastal zone, with the nearby Tetney/Ingoldmells salterns) to local markets and the wider provincial economy. Individually unremarkable, they are collectively the dominant settlement form across this landscape.
This is an Iron Age and Romano-British enclosure complex on the Lincolnshire Wolds/Marsh fringe south of a village (the coordinates place it in the area around Tetney/North Cotes/Marshchapel in NE Lincolnshire). It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Iron Age and Romano-British enclosure, S of village is classified as a Roman site — a civilian site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
Several Roman sites lie within a short distance, including Kirmond-le-Mire (10.6 km), Neolithic long barrow, Iron Age hut circles and a Romano-British settlement, 380m south-east of Swinhope Lodge (10.9 km), Roman villa (11.1 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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