Monument record M4889 - Settlement, Ranskill

Summary

SETTLEMENT? (Early Iron Age to Roman)

Location

Grid reference Centred SK 65818 87200 (1032m by 746m)
Map sheet SK68NE
District Bassetlaw
Civil Parish Ranskill, Bassetlaw

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

A complex of small rectangular "enclosures" running N-S and showing up as light cropmarks. A Ro building ? In the same field there is a largish rectangular enclosure and part of another, both showing as dark cropmarks. Also a small circular enclosure. (1) (2)
Cropmarks S of Ranskill of a complex of subrectangular enclosures, partly covered by the railway, at the end of 2 long boundaries and brickwork plan fields possibly of Ro date. The 2 main enclosures are 0.2 and 0.4Ha in area, and each having subdivisions. A small circle, probably a round house, and a square 200.0m to the S, are both 15.0m in diameter. (3)
Morph: 131.8.1-3 unknown prehistoric enclosure, 131.8.4 unknown prehistoric hut circle, 131.8.5 unknown prehistoric stock enclosure, 131.9.1 Roman farmstead; group: Roman settlement, 131.10.1 Roman stock enclosure. (4)
See L 4828 - cropmarks to W and S. See SMR map.


Data Held: Aerial Photograph (Aerial photograph). SNT2645.

3 BW prints, JAP 1176/17,18, DNR 869/34, SMR

<1> Riley DN, Air photos (Aerial photograph). SNT1194.

Other Refs: 869/34 (NLAP SK 6687/16)

<2> Pickering J, Air photos (Aerial photograph). SNT1148.

Other Refs: 1176/17,18 (NLAP SK 6687/8,9)

<3> Riley DN, 1980, Early Landscapes from the Air, pp 18,38,54,112, map 18 (Published document). SNT1197.

<4> RCHME, National Mapping Programme, Notts - Morph Data (Unknown). SNT1470.

Sources/Archives (5)

  • --- Aerial photograph: Data Held: Aerial Photograph.
  • <1> Aerial photograph: Riley DN. Air photos.
  • <2> Aerial photograph: Pickering J. Air photos.
  • <3> Published document: Riley DN. 1980. Early Landscapes from the Air. pp 18,38,54,112, map 18 .
  • <4> Unknown: RCHME. National Mapping Programme, Notts - Morph Data.

Finds (0)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Related Monuments/Buildings (2)

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Record last edited

Jan 19 2023 7:34PM

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