Sleap, J. (2016). Land adjacent to Manton Quarry, Manton, North Lincolnshire. Brockley: Pre-Construct Archaeology Limited. https://doi.org/10.5284/1056740. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Land adjacent to Manton Quarry, Manton, North Lincolnshire
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Series:		 Pre-Construct Archaeology (Lincoln) unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 A programme of archaeological evaluation trenching took place on land adjacent to Manton Quarry, Manton, to inform the application to extend the mineral extraction into the site. Settlement around Manton has a long history. The Lincoln Edge is argued to be the route of the Jurassic Way, a prehistoric trackway between crossings of the Rivers Humber and Witham, with the track extending beyond these natural boundaries in the landscape. Fieldwalking in the area around Manton has produced a large quantity of works flint and stone tools, and aerial photographs have identified a number of undated cropmarks around the village, which may support this theory. Fieldwalking and excavation to the north of the site have revealed Roman British features, in association with a significant quantity of ceramic building material suggesting buildings and occupation. Manton itself was a large village with probably Saxon roots, which shrunk in the post-medieval period resulting in the existing small settlement surrounded by the earthworks of the medieval village. Geophysical survey of the site adjacent to the existing quarry has revealed only a scatter of discrete anomalies thought to be archaeological in origin. Fieldwalking carried out in January 2016 has yielded a small finds corpus, including a single Neolithic flint, Romano-British pottery and slag, suggestive of small scale iron working in the vicinity, as well as scattered medieval and post-medieval pottery, thought to be the result of agricultural manuring of fields around the village. A total of ten 40m by 2m trenches were excavated, targeting geophysical anomalies and areas where concentrations of finds were retrieved during the fieldwalking exercise. The results of the evaluation proved negative, the geophysical anomalies being variations in the natural limestone brash together with numerous solution features.
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Author:		 Julian Sleap
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Publisher:		 Pre-Construct Archaeology Limited
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Year of Publication:		 2016
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Parish: MANTON
County: Lincolnshire
District: North Lincolnshire
Country: England
Site: Land adjacent to Manton Quarry
Grid Reference: 493740, 402310 (Easting, Northing)
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OASIS Id: preconst3-245065
OBIB: 1596
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Created Date:		 11 Oct 2019