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<< Our Photo Pages >> Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow - Barrow Cemetery in England in Lincolnshire

Submitted by Catrinm on Monday, 29 January 2018  Page Views: 6003

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow Alternative Name: Lincoln bypass site north of Witham
Country: England County: Lincolnshire Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Lincoln
Map Ref: TF00407110
Latitude: 53.227464N  Longitude: 0.497495W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Catrinm visited on 18th Apr 2020 - their rating: Cond: 1 Amb: 2 Access: 3 Quite hard to get to the remaining barrows now - where is Network archeology's report? Part of their o0cntract was to keep the public informed.

Catrinm visited on 26th Dec 2017 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Hard to photograph but definitely there- has the third one actually gone now?

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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 1.5 Ambience: 3 Access: 3.5

Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow
Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow submitted by Bladup : Excavations at Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow, You can see the outer ditch but the inner bank has now gone. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Barrow Cemetery and possible Henge in Lincolnshire. This is a very recently excavated site by Network Archeology on the Lincoln Eastern Bypass site. They have reported in the local press that this is an exciting new find - a 55m diameter ring (section of it only in picture ) with bank and ditch on the outside (unusually). It is reportedly either a Neolithic henge monument or a Bronze Age disc barrow

Two Bronze Age cremation burials found inside circle, so may span millennium 2000-3000 BC .

Can be viewed by coming off the footpath (Viking way) and going round edge of excavation site (carefully keeping outside of barriers in place, obviously).

Have a look at Bladup's comment on the photo page.

Note: Lots more news from the Lincolnshire Bypass (or prehistoric landscape to give it a better name) - Cremation Urn, Axe head, human skeletons, Bronze earring, more in the comments on our page and follow the links for excellent reporting from Lincolnshire Live. ...lots of barrows, but is there a henge too?
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Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow
Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow submitted by Catrinm : Possible Neolithic 55m diameter henge (or Bronze Age disc barrow) excavated on the Lincoln (North of Witham) Eastern bypass route. Fascinating to see archaeology in action on your doorstep. (Network Archeology). (11 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow
Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow submitted by Bladup : This photo shows very well the light pale coloured bank (on the Left) on the inside of the dark peat filled ditch (on the Right), The bank has gone in the other later photo's of this site page and only the ditch remains. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow
Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow submitted by Bladup : Excavations at Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow, In this photo you can see the organic material in the ditch. (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow
Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow submitted by Bladup : The Second barrow just over the river from Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow at TF002707, The other at TF00157074 is just behind. An excavated third barrow has now gone because of the new bypass been built. (4 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow
Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow submitted by Bladup : A large low barrow just over the river from Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow, It's found at TF00157074. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow
Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow submitted by Bladup : The large low barrow and the moon near Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow, It's found at TF01037115. (8 comments)

Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow
Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow submitted by Bladup : Another large low barrow near Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow, It's found at TF01037115, There's another smaller barrow right behind in the background at the edge of the green field, You can just see it's slight mound. (1 comment)

Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow
Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow submitted by Bladup : Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow, Organic material within the ditch.

Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow
Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow submitted by Bladup : Nearby Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow is the low mound of this large double barrow at TF00797098. Lincoln cathedral is on the left. (6 comments)

Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow
Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow submitted by Bladup : Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow, Overview of the exposed part, The inner bank had gone by the time these photo's were taken.

Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow
Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow submitted by Bladup : Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow under excavation, You can see the darker organic material within the ditch, The inner bank has now gone.

Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow
Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow submitted by Catrinm : Round barrow nearby: one of three in a field. May be safe from the new road - fingers crossed ... As Bladup says visible on a Google Earth.

Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow
Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow submitted by Catrinm : Boxing Day 2017. A revisit before they cover this ancient lanscape with a dual carriageway. More waterlogged than in October. Also visited round barrows two fields away, which may be safe. Fingers crossed.

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Re: Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow by Catrinm on Wednesday, 31 January 2018
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Following our belated visits to this site and Bladup’s useful info I wrote to the council to find out how many barrows would be destroyed by the bypass. I got this response.

“It is clear this area of the floodplain of the river Witham was a significant ritual landscape in the Bronze Age. South of the river three barrows have been fully excavated. All the others identified on aerial photographs will be preserved in situ and left undisturbed by the development. To the north of the river barrows had been previously identified although the work of the archeologists has identified more than previously recognised. Of the thirteen identified four have been excavated. The rest will be preserved and are outside the line of the road.
One possible barrow when excavated turned out to be a natural feature.”

So looks like 7 have been destroyed 😔
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    Re: Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow by Bladup on Wednesday, 31 January 2018
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    Thanks for the info Catrinm, A bit sad isn't it? it's not like there's barrows everywhere around Lincoln, It's the closest known barrowfield to Lincoln and those idiots passing though it with there pointless expensive road are so out of order with no respect for any of our heritages at all, oh but at least they were excavated though - total fools!!!!
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      Re: Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow by Catrinm on Thursday, 01 February 2018
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      I replied and said it was regrettable that if it was so large and significant that it wasn’t preserved/scheduled as are other barrow fields...but too late now. And you did try before so ...I suspect the acheologists don’t object as they’re all in a private archeology company getting a massive contract on the back of this.
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Archaeologists unearth massive 5,000-yo structure near Lincoln industrial estate by Andy B on Saturday, 27 January 2018
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Archaeologists from Network Archaeology Ltd have teamed up with Lincolnshire Live to reveal more about the incredible artefacts from a dig along part of the route of Lincoln's Eastern Bypass

Here, Dr Richard Moore and director Christopher Taylor continue their Find of the Week series, and this week they share the unearthing of a sacred place used for burials...

Our Find of the Week this time is on a grand scale. We are working now on the north side of the River Witham, just beyond the outskirts of the city and not far from Allenby Road trading estate.

As we machined away the topsoil, a wide ring of pale-coloured soil appeared. We carefully excavated around it and it has turned out to be the top of a large bank, surrounded by a ditch infilled with dark peaty soil.

It forms a ring over fifty-five metres across, occupying an area of more than a third of the size of the pitch at Sincil Bank football ground.

But what is it, and how old is it? Is it a henge monument, dating from the Neolithic period, around five thousand years ago.

Or a disc barrow: an unusual variation on the circular burial mounds which developed around the middle of the Bronze Age around 3,500 years ago.

There are two smaller ring ditches from Bronze Age barrows nearby – in the background of the photograph, behind the spoil-heaps - and we are just across the river to the three barrows that we have excavated on the south side of the river.

There were problems with both interpretations. It’s the right size for a henge, but these normally - not always - have the ditch on the inside of the bank, whereas ours is on the outside.

And the bank of a henge usually has entrance gaps. So far, our bank seems to be continuous. On the other hand, our circular bank is much bigger than any known disc barrow.

We now think that this site started as a ceremonial enclosure in the third millennium BC, but had become a sacred place by around 2,000 BC when it was used for cremation burials. Later on, it became a focus around the Bronze Age barrow cemetery.

Changes in the water levels over the centuries led to the bank being partly buried in peat and silts, so that there is still much that survives to be excavated and recorded.

Analysis of the results from our investigations of this site, and its counterpart to the south of the Witham, will be add to our understanding of the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, not just in Lincolnshire but across the whole of the country.

http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/archaeologists-unearth-massive-5000-year-603713
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Archaeologists find 3000 year old cremation urn at Lincoln bypass dig by Andy B on Saturday, 27 January 2018
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For our latest Find of the Week, we are back at the Greetwell site, on the north side of the River Witham.

There are at least four early Bronze Age round barrows on this side of the river, to add to the three we have excavated on the south bank.

Several other barrows show up as cropmarks or soil marks, on both sides of the river, just beyond the edges of the Eastern Bypass route.

The pottery vessel in the photograph had been buried in a neat circular pit, near the centre of the barrow.

http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/archaeologists-find-cremation-urn-least-1062018
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Archaeologists find 4,000-year-old earring probably from 'important' woman by Andy B on Saturday, 27 January 2018
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Our Find of the Week is a curious circular object with a groove round its middle, looking like a tiny pulley wheel. It is made of jet or a very similar shiny black shale.

It was found within one of the early Bronze Age burial mounds on the north bank of the Witham.

Our first thought was that this mystery object was in far too good a condition for something of that age and we wondered if it could have been a modern object that had somehow found its way into this earlier layer.

Could it have been something that one of our digging team had accidentally dropped?

But the bypass excavations are attracting a huge interest from the world of archaeology and we are able to draw on the knowledge and experience of a wide range of experts.

http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/archaeologists-find-4000-year-old-692608
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Human skeleton unearthed at site of Lincoln bypass by Andy B on Saturday, 27 January 2018
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Archaeologists from Network Archaeology Ltd have teamed up with Lincolnshire Live to reveal more about the incredible artifacts from a dig along part of the route of Lincoln's Eastern Bypass

Here, Dr Richard Moore and director Christopher Taylor continue their Find of the Week series, and this week they share the amazing find of an ancient burial...

For our Find of the Week, we have another early inhabitant of the Witham valley.

This grave is one of a pair found close to the southern bank of the river. The bones of the skeleton were covered in wet peaty mud when we found them, so that they looked almost black, contrasting with the teeth of the upper and lower jaws, at the bottom of the photograph, above the partly crushed remains of the skull.

We think that this was a man rather than a woman, though we will be more certain after our bone specialist has carried out her detailed examination of the skeleton.

The big question is when was he buried? We plan to send off a small sample of one of the bones to be carbon dated, which will give us a firm answer but until we get the results we have to rely on the purely archaeological evidence.

http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/human-skeleton-unearthed-site-lincoln-533607
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Axe-head found in bypass dig reveals cutting-edge technology from 4,000 years ago by Andy B on Saturday, 27 January 2018
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Archaeologists from Network Archaeology Ltd have teamed up with Lincolnshire Live to reveal more about the incredible artifacts from a dig along part of the route of Lincoln's Eastern Bypass

Here, Dr Richard Moore and director Christopher Taylor continue their Find of the Week series, and this week they share the amazing find of a bronze axe head...

This week we have chosen a metal axe-head as our Find of the Week. It is made of a copper alloy, and was found on the Greetwell site, just north of the River Witham.

This axe-head dates from the period when metal was first used in Britain, at the end of the third millennium BC.

The use of metal tools at this time marks the end of the Neolithic period.

The skills of smelting copper and tin ores together to produce true bronze had not yet been properly mastered and the results were variable alloys of copper with other metals.

More at
http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/history/axe-head-found-bypass-dig-659658

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Re: Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow by Bladup on Saturday, 04 November 2017
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The Site before excavation - https://zoom.earth/#53.228055,-0.497518,17z,sat Notice the Double Barrow (the Western is easier to see) two fields away to the East - https://zoom.earth/#53.22643,-0.49167,17z,sat I also thought there was another enclosure to the SSE - https://zoom.earth/#53.226231,-0.495726,17z,sat but i'd have thought they'd have found it when they took the topsoil off to build the bypass. I also wonder what these massive cropmarks are not far to the North of this site - https://zoom.earth/#53.232987,-0.495726,17z,sat
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    Re: Lincoln Greetwell Henge/disc barrow by Catrinm on Monday, 06 November 2017
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    Thanks - we couldn’t quite make it out on google earth before until your point on it , then it’s clear. Yes I wonder. They’re sampling a lot to the east but not that far north.
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