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Haxey Village Drainage Improvement Scheme, Haxey, North Lincolnshire: Scheme of Archaeological Observation, Assessment and Recording |
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Pre-Construct Archaeology (Lincoln) unpublished report series
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
Archaeological monitoring and recording was carried out during the excavation of a sequence of open drains and pipe-trenches intended to improve drainage on land to the south-east of Haxey, North Lincolnshire. The village of Haxey is situated on the Isle of Axholme, where linen and hemp textile production was a significant local industry from the medieval period into the 19th century: the right of the inhabitants of the Isle to ret hemp in the waters of the local wetlands is enshrined in a legal document dating to 1360. Sections of the scheme lay within an area of archaeological potential, where cropmarks on aerial photographs indicated the presence of ditches, enclosures, and rectangular pits where flax and hemp may have been soaked (retted) to prepare them for processing into textiles. Several pits and ditches were recorded during the project. Two ditches could be identified as part of a complex of recorded cropmarks, and one of these produced archaeobotanical evidence for flax and hemp processing. Another feature encountered seemed most likely to be a former extension of the Lound Rates Drain, which had gone out of use in the early 20th century. |
Author: |
Rachel Savage
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Publisher: |
Pre-Construct Archaeology Limited
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
North Lincolnshire SMR (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2011
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Haxey Village Drainage Improvement Scheme |
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HAXEY |
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North Lincolnshire |
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Lincolnshire |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 477680, 399310 (Easting, Northing)
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Grid Reference: 478440, 399050 (Easting, Northing)
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preconst3-104202 |
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A4 thermal bound report with a transparent cover; contains some A3 foldout pages.
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Created Date: |
24 Nov 2016 |