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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Fiskerton Iron Age causewayCountry: England County: Lincolnshire Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Map Ref: TF05007159
Latitude: 53.230979N Longitude: 0.428455W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Lying between the posts were horizontal timbers which had been pegged into the ground forming a firm walkway over the boggy ground. There were two major phases of repair where vertical timbers had been replaced and when the horizontals rotted they had been consolidated with a layer of limestone chips.
Finds include bone needles, pottery, and domestic and military metalwork, four axes and a hammer, a file with a decorated bone handle and a pruning hook. Four iron swords, two in scabbards, three socketed iron spear heads, and various items of horse furniture were also recovered. This leads to speculation about the importance of the causeway. It may have been a main route across the river which needed defending.
Further investigation of the Fiskerton causeway to the north of the River Witham was conducted in 2007. Four trial trenches were excavated to assess the preservation of the monument, and the impact of land management changes over the previous 25 years on the remains. The study concluded that although previous ploughing regimes have caused an appreciable loss of stratigraphy and destruction to the monument, the lower deposits survived in good condition. It was recommended that timbers recovered in the investigation should be subjected to high precision radiocarbon dating, to help clarify the construction sequence and relationships of the various causeway elements.
Source: Lincolnshire HER
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