This is a multi-period site on the Lincolnshire Wolds near Swinhope, comprising a Neolithic long barrow, Iron Age hut circles, and an overlying Romano-British settlement. The Roman-period occupation, likely active from the 1st to 4th centuries AD, represents a small rural farming community typical of the Wolds — probably a native British settlement that continued through and adapted to Roman administration rather than a planned Roman foundation.
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The site illustrates the long continuity of settlement on the Lincolnshire Wolds and the persistence of indigenous rural communities under Roman rule, contributing agricultural produce (likely cereals and sheep) to the wider economy of the civitas of the Corieltauvi. It has no apparent military or administrative role but is significant for its stratified record of prehistoric-to-Roman land use in one location.
The site is known principally from aerial photography, surface survey, and finds scatters rather than systematic excavation, with cropmarks revealing the hut circles and enclosures and the long barrow visible as an earthwork. Detailed excavation evidence is limited, and the precise chronology, layout, and material assemblage of the Romano-British phase are not well published.
This is a multi-period site on the Lincolnshire Wolds near Swinhope, comprising a Neolithic long barrow, Iron Age hut circles, and an overlying Romano-British settlement. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Neolithic long barrow, Iron Age hut circles and a Romano-British settlement, 380m south-east of Swinhope Lodge is classified as a Roman settlement — 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 Roman villa (4.6 km), Kirmond-le-Mire (5 km), Walesby (9.5 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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