| Summary : Major Late Iron Age settlement site, thought to be the tribal centre of the Coritani. Extensive evidence for occupation including ditches, pits, houses, coins, coin moulds and crucibles indicating the presence of a mint dating to the first quarter of the 1st century AD. Roman occupation consisted of buildings, two corn driers, coins and pottery. There were traces of Saxon occupation with three inhumations, pottery, bronze tweezers and a bone pin. A Medieval or post Medieval sub rectangular enclosure was found. |
More information : "A" [TF 0768 4593](3) Iron Age major open settlement, tribal headquarters and mint of the Coritani, discovered at Old Place, Sleaford, in 1960-1.(7) The mint is dated to the first quarter of the 1st century A.D. (10) Many pits and ditches were cleared. No house plans were recovered. Imported Gallo-Belgic, Belgic and 1, A 'B' pottery was abundant. Coritanian and Dobunic coins, (1) and well over 2,000 sizeable pieces of coin-moulds and crucible fragments, and many small pieces, were recovered by Mrs M U Jones, of Preston Wynne, Hereford. (10) An uninscribed gold stater, Evans type B.8 found at Sleaford, was said by Evans (4) to be in the collection of A Trollope of Lincoln.
Continued intensive occupation of the area throughout the Roman period and into the Anglo-Saxon [see also TF 04 NE 19 for DMV] is evidenced by finds over a long period. Romano-British remains include stone buildings, a 2nd century aisled timber structure, a large corn drier within a walled yard, and a second corn drier. A sub-rectangular ditched enclosure, about 250 ft across, seen on air photograph (8) at "B" [TF 0774 4605] and traces of masonry. Coins include a collection (AD 118-395) in private hands from Old Place
grounds, and others from Boston Road. Much pottery from the area
includes Samian and Parisian stamped ware.
Saxon pottery, including Stamford ware, etc, bronze tweezers, bone pin, one inhumation burial with associated pottery, seen during building operations at Old Place.
Two inhumations (no grave goods) were found during development for building in Hoplands [TF 0780 4609]. (1-10)
The site at "A" and the immediate surrounding area has now been used for housing development.
The site at "B" is rough pasture scheduled for development.
There are no surface traces of an enclosure. (11)
No change. (12)
Additional references. (13)(14)(15)
The sub rectangular enclosure on the air photograph referred to by
authority 8 is of Medieval or Post Medieval date and relates to the
Medieval/Post medieval field pattern in the vicinity. The enclosure
appears to be a combination of field boundaries and drains. (16) |