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The Prehistoric Pottery Sites of the Lincolnshire Coast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

H. H. Swinnerton
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The existence of ancient pottery sites between the tide lines on the Lincolnshire Coast, north of Skegness, has long been known, but references to them in literature are scanty. The lack of detailed knowledge about them is due to the unusual difficulties which confront the would-be investigator. In the first place they lie buried under six or eight feet of marshland clay. Away from the coast itself they are to be seen only where drains dug to this or to greater depths happen to cut through them. This is naturally a rare occurrence. Along the coast, however, exposures are more common, for there the erosive action of the sea is slowly removing the clays and bringing the pottery sites to view at mid-tide level. The same process unfortunately also removes the material of the sites. Opportunities for investigations are therefore fleeting.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , July 1932 , pp. 239 - 253
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1932

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References

page 240 note 1 For fuller details see H. H. Swinnerton, ‘Post-glacial Deposits of the Lincolnshire Coast’, Q.J.G.S., 1931, p. 360.

page 240 note 2 S. H. Warren, ‘Notes on some Palaeolithic and Neolithic Implements from East Lincolnshire’, Man, 1907, pp. 1–3.

page 240 note 3 Hill, J. H., Trans. Leics. Archit. and Archaeological Soc., ii, 1870, p. 88.Google Scholar

page 241 note 1 S. Maudson Grant states that he found ‘the base of the wall of a circular kiln having a diameter of 15 ft.’ (Proc. Mtg. Archaeol. Institute at Lincoln 1848, p. xliii and Lines. Notes and Queries, viii, 1904, pp. 33–38). None of the twelve sites referred to in this paper showed any indications of kilns of such a form and size.

page 243 note 1 ‘Report of the Red Hills Exploration Committee’, Proc. Soc. Ant.,xxii, 1908, p. 164; and xxiii, 1910, p. 66.Google Scholar

page 243 note 2 This ‘pottery’ should therefore be described as briquetage (vide Reginald A. Smith, Proc. Soc. Ant., xxx, p. 37).

page 246 note 1 Nicholson, W. A., Arch. Journ., viii, 1850, p. 69.Google Scholar

page 248 note 1 C. Lukis appears to have been the first to suggest this use for ‘hand bricks’. In his figure, in which he illustrates the way in which they are used, he has represented them upside down. Arch. Journ., vii, 1850, p. 176.Google Scholar

page 251 note 1 Reginald A. Smith, ‘Essex Red Hills as Salt-works’, Proc. Soc. Ant., xxx, 36.

page 253 note 1 Lukis, C., Arch. Journ., vii, 1850, pp. 175, 176.Google Scholar