This site comprises two Roman barrows located west of Home Farm in Lincolnshire, situated near the line of the Roman road of Tillbridge Lane or in the broader hinterland of Lindum Colonia (Lincoln). Roman barrows in this region typically date to the later 1st through 2nd centuries AD and represent the burial mounds of relatively wealthy rural individuals or families, often sited prominently in the landscape near roads or estate boundaries.
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Such paired barrows are a recognised but uncommon funerary form in Roman Britain, concentrated in the eastern counties (Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk) and generally interpreted as the burials of prosperous Romano-British landowners adopting a hybrid native–continental funerary tradition. Their roadside or estate-edge positioning made them statements of status and territorial claim in the rural landscape around the colonia.
No detailed excavation record is known to me for these specific mounds; comparable Lincolnshire barrows (e.g. Riseholme, Bartlow analogues) have yielded cremation burials with imported pottery, glass vessels, and occasionally bronze grave goods within timber or tile chambers beneath the mound. The Home Farm barrows survive as earthworks and are likely protected as a scheduled monument, but their contents and precise dating remain unverified without published fieldwork.
This site comprises two Roman barrows located west of Home Farm in Lincolnshire, situated near the line of the Roman road of Tillbridge Lane or in the broader hinterland of Lindum Colonia (Lincoln). It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Two Roman barrows 180m west of Home Farm 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.
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