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Hoe Hill Long Barrow — Folklore |
| The barrow gets it's alternative name of Cromwell's Grave from the local tradition that one of Cromwell's Roundheads was captured, killed and buried there. (Source: Internet) |
Posted by Blind Davey 19th September 2023ce |
Honington Camp (Hillfort) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
  
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Posted by costaexpress 22nd June 2017ce |
Bully Hills (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) — Images |
  
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Posted by Princejasu 23rd January 2016ce |
West Ashby Henge — Miscellaneous |
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Details of henge on Pastscape Oval cropmark, diameter c.25 m of henge monument, class II, with opposed entrances known from JK St Joseph AP's BCG82-84. Ditch is encircled by series of pits. Neolithic flints from fieldwalking include cores and scrapers. (See also TF 27 SW/14). (1-2) TF 254 716. Shearman's Wath henge. Scheduled no. LI/265. (3) Small sub-circular enclosure, known from cropmarks, situated at c 36.5m above OD. Enclosure is defined by faint, irregular cropmarks of a ditch with an entrance to the NW; a less certain entrance to the SE and a possible break to the ESE. The enclosure is surrounded by a partial circuit of pits of which 19 are visible.Internal diameter 17-5-18.5m. Described by Harding and Lee as a probable henge. (4) The Neolithic or Bronze Age henge referred to by the previous authorities was seen as cropmarks and mapped from good quality air photographs. The henge has an internal diameter of c20m and the diameter of the outer ring of pits is c26m. The henge is more accurately located at TF 2538 7168. (Morph No. LI.138.1.1) This description is based on data from the RCHME MORPH2 database. |
Posted by Chance28th December 2014ce |
Cleatham Hall Farm (Round Barrow(s)) — Fieldnotes |
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Directions: North of the village of Kirton in Lindsey – along the B1400. We parked near the public footpath sign and I walked up the muddy track which skirts around a small lake. There is no public right of way to the Barrow but it can be seen on the opposite side of the lake from the water’s edge – a grass mound in a field. E.H. state: ‘The barrow is 1.5m high and 45m in diameter. The barrow has twice been investigated by antiquarians. The first investigation (1867) found a layer of partially cremated bones and two urns in the centre of the mound. The second excavation (1911) found a layer of burnt earth’. |
Posted by CARL 7th May 2014ce |
Bully Hill (Round Barrow(s)) — Folklore |
Orgarth Hill Farm is on the opposite side of the road to these barrows. The Ghost of Orgarth Hill. - This hill, a few miles south of Louth, some 40 years ago was haunted by a man riding on a shag or shaggy horse, which suddenly appeared without any warning, and kept up with persons until they were terrified, but usually it appeared to people riding or driving, who did not notice the horse and its rider, until they looked to see what had terrified their horses, which stood trembling with fear, until they bolted down the hill.From Lincolnshire Notes and Queries volume 2, page 272. The implication seems to be that this apparition might be connected with the shagfoal or tatterfoal, a kind of furry horsey supernatural cousin of the more widely known big black dogs like Shuck. |
Posted by Rhiannon23rd January 2014ce |
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