Timberlake, S. (2011). Roman Pavement, Lincoln Anglian Water replacement water main. Cambridge: Cambridge Archaeological Unit. https://doi.org/10.5284/1092734. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Roman Pavement, Lincoln Anglian Water replacement water main
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Abstract:		 Between 8th February and 30th March 2011 the Cambridge Archaeological Unit carried out an archaeological watching brief on the excavation of a 315m long, 0.4m wide and approx 1m deep open cut trench dug for the purposes of an Anglian Water replacement water main (parallel to the existing pipe) within the left-hand roadway of Roman Pavement, off Greetwell Road, Lincoln. During opencast ironstone mining undertaken in the 1880-90s by the Mid-Lincs Ironstone Company the remains of a large 3rd-4th century Roman villa (the Greetwell Roman Villa) was uncovered. This included a bath house and a number of large mosaic-floored corridor rooms, one of which (at 87m the longest in Britain with the exception of Fishbourne Palace) was found along the southern edge of this former quarry working. The purpose of the current monitoring was to establish whether any of the villa or associated floor levels had survived 19th-century quarrying. At least some survival iof this is suggested by the investigations of the Lincoln Archaeology Research Committee undertaken in 1945/6 during the laying of services for the future housing on the Monks Tower Estate. The current archaeological monitoring did not reveal any traces of in situ. Roman floor levels or of wall structures along this pipeline transect, though at the southern end close to the former entrance to the ironstone quarry, broken Roman tile and tessarae were found within the backfilled quarry fill. These may be associated with surface clearance carried out in the 1890s following the removal of the excavated villa floors and the quarrying away of the site. Taking into account the archival evidence, and also the evidence of destruction of the villa at this particular location, it seems possible that traces of the wall foundations and mosaic floors survive within a narrow sub-surface strip (>0.5m deep) between the south-eastern end of Roman Pavement, the west end of Tower Drive, and the northernmost end of Jellicoe Avenue.
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Author:		 S. Timberlake
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Publisher:		 Cambridge Archaeological Unit
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Year of Publication:		 2011
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District: Lincoln
County: Lincolnshire
Country: England
Parish: Lincoln, unparished area
Grid Reference: 499497, 371643 (Easting, Northing)
Grid Reference: 499345, 371825 (Easting, Northing)
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VILLA (Monument Type England)
ROMAN VILLA (Tag)
FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT) (Event)
ROOF TILE (Object England)
ROMAN ROOF TILE (Tag)
QUARRY (Monument Type England)
POST MEDIEVAL QUARRY (Tag)
HYPOCAUST TILE (Object England)
ROMAN HYPOCAUST TILE (Tag)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
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OASIS Id: cambridg3-107363
OBIB: Report no. 1018
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Created Date:		 19 May 2022