Monument record MLI43318 - Deadmen's Graves 2

Summary

One of a group of Neolithic long barrows to the north-west of Claxby St Andrew, known as Deadmen's Graves.

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Full Description

One of a group of Neolithic long barrows to the north-west of Claxby St Andrew, known as Deadmen's Graves. Scheduled. {1}{2}{3}{4}{5} Neolithic long barrow 495m north of Moon Wood, also known as Deadmen's Graves 2. It stands as a prominent earthwork clearly visible from the public highway. It is located 50m above sea level, below the summit of a spur above the source of the Burlands Beck. The barrow is aligned east to west, is approximately 57m long by 18m wide and stands to a height of some 2m at the eastern end, decreasing over its length to c.0.3m in the south. A small chalk pit has encroached upon the mound's central section, but otherwise the mound remains largely intact and there has been no interference at the eastern end which will retain the highest concentration of mortuary evidence. Material for the mound would have been quarried from an encircling causewayed ditch and although this ditch is not now visible, it is thought to survive buried beneath the present ground surface. {6}{7}

Sources/Archives (7)

  •  Article in Serial: C.W. Phillips. 1935. 'The Present State of Archaeology in Lincolnshire: Part 2' in the Archaeological Journal. vol.91, p.163.
  •  Index: Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey Card Index. TF 47 SW: 7.
  •  Index: Lincolnshire County Council. Sites and Monuments Record Card Index. TF 47 SW: H.
  •  Aerial Photograph: 1946-98. RCHME. 5166/27.
  •  Scheduling Record: HBMC. AM 7. SAM 73.
  •  Scheduling Record: ENGLISH HERITAGE. 1996. REVISED SCHEDULING DOCUMENT 27874. MPP 23.
  •  Index: Dilwyn Jones. 1998. Gazetteer of Neolithic Elongated Enclosures and Extant Long Barrows in (Historic) Lincolnshire. No.8.

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Location

Grid reference Centred TF 4458 7189 (72m by 53m) Estimated from Sources
Civil Parish CLAXBY ST ANDREW, EAST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Apr 6 2022 9:35AM

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