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The excavation of a Roman barrow at Riseholme, near Lincoln

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

F. H. Thompson
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The parish of Riseholme lies immediately north of the Lincoln city boundary and on the east side of Ermine Street as it runs along the top of the Jurassic ridge towards the Humber. It is an area of fertile, easily worked land lying between 130 and 200 ft. above sea-level, and must have presented a sharp contrast, in prehistoric eyes, to the areas of difficult settlement on the low-lying clays to east and west. The latter no doubt came under the plough in Roman times and indeed probably formed the bulk of the territorium attached to the colonia at Lincoln after its foundation at the end of the first century; but the higher ground, with few or no trees to clear, must still have seemed desirable land to the discharged legionary.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 34 , Issue 1-2 , January 1954 , pp. 28 - 37
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1964

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References

page 28 note 1 Arch. Journ. ciii, 66.

page 28 note 2 Ibid. 29.

page 28 note 3 Antiquity, i (1927), 431, and x (1936), 38Google Scholar.

page 29 note 1 Cf. Grinsell, L. V., The Ancient Burial Mounds of England (1936), p. 38Google Scholar, where it is remarked that secondary burials were frequently placed in this position.

page 29 note 2 Museum no. 1.35.

page 33 note 1 Museum nos. 271–4.12.

page 33 note 2 Arch. Journ. ciii, 53.

page 33 note 3 Ibid., Part II, fig. 5.

page 33 note 4 Antiquity, x (1936), 38.Google Scholar

page 35 note 1 Fox, C., Archaeology of the Cambridge Region (Cambridge, 1923), p. 197Google Scholar.