| Abstract: |
Begins with the `Director's Report' by David Start (4-8), which summarises the Trust's activities, discussing overall performance and administrative matters. The following chapter describes conservation and interpretation projects undertaken, including five contributions by Collette Hall, on `Tupholme Abbey' (9), Horncastle's `Trinity centre' (10),`Lincolnshire then and now' (11-12), `Buildings preservation trust' (12-14), and `Buildings at risk in Lincolnshire' (14-15); notes on `Lincolnshire Heritage Day' by Sarah Willis (11), and `The Lincolnshire Folksong Competition' by Tom Lane (15); and look at the use of `Computers at Heritage Lincolnshire' by Sue Unsworth (15-16). In the next chapter, the Trust's community archaeologists respectively report on their work in `Boston' by Jim Bonnor (17-19), `North Kesteven' by Nicola Nuttall (19-21), `South Kesteven' by Ruth Waller (21-2). Jim Bonnor (23) also evaluates the success of `The Metal Detecting Liaison Group', and a bronze Saxon girdle hanger discovered at Sleaford is illustrated. A chapter on research archaeology discusses progress with The Fenland Management Project and presents the following results of fieldwork: excavation of Neolithic/Bronze Age sites at `Dogdyke, Pinchbeck and Deeping St James', by Tom Lane (24-9), `Excavation of a section of the Bourne-Morton canal in Morton fen', by Dale Trimble (29-30), `Gosberton and the Saxons: breaking new ground', by Tom Lane (30-2), and `Excavation of a Roman Saltern in Morton Fen' by Dale Trimble (32-3). The concluding chapter summarises commercial archaeology projects and includes longer contributions on the following: `Baston Hall farm' Saxon and medieval settlement (34-6) by Michael Jarvis; `Conning Street, Horncastle' (36-7), `Salterford, Salter's Way' (38), and `Salterford, treatment plant' (39), all by Gary Taylor; and `Hangman's Lane, Stainfield' by Mark Dymond (39-41). Denise Buckley also reports on `Finds from excavations' (41-2). |
