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Earthwork east of St Helen's Well

In the civil parish of Bigby.
In the historic county of Lincolnshire.
Modern Authority of Lincolnshire.
1974 county of Lincolnshire.

OS Map Grid Reference: TA01970762
Latitude 53.55544° Longitude -0.46192°

Earthwork east of St Helen's Well has been described as a Timber Castle but is rejected as such.

There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains.

Description

In Lincolnshire HER as undated ringwork. Ringwork is a term supposedly reserved for medieval ringwork castles but is used for other circular archaeological feature at times. This sites appears to described as a Roman stock enclosure or post medieval quarry but certainly is not a medieval site of any description.

A sub circular enclosure circa 70 to 80 metres in diameter was recorded as a slight earthwork on air photographs taken in 1976. Sinuous linear features adjacent to the north side may be hollow ways. The enclosure was recorded in 1929 by the Ordnance Survey as an earthwork with a bank circa 2 feet high and 4 feet wide and a ditch about 1.5 feet deep. No entrance was apparent. The site was ploughed and/or levelled in 1962/3, and fieldwalking at the time produced no finds. Its date is therefore uncertain. (PastScape)

Links to mapping and other online resources
Data >	PastScape	County HER		Listing
Maps >	OS getamap	Streetmap	Old-Maps	Where's the path
Data/Maps >	Magic	V. O. B.	Geology	EarthTools
Air Photos >	Bing Maps	Google Maps	Getmapping	Flashearth
Photos >	CastleFacts	Geograph	Flickr	Panoramio

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Heritage List for England Listed Building number(s) " , "
English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 78671.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 50491".

Books
- Everson, P.L., Taylor, C.C. and Dunn, C.J., 1991, Change and Continuity: Rural Settlement in North-West Lincolnshire p. vi
Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
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Other sources: Theses; 'grey' literature; in-house reports; unpublished works; etc.
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The bibliography owes much to various bibliographies produced by John Kenyon for the Council for British Archaeology, the Castle Studies Group and others.

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Minor archaeological investigations, such as watching brief reports, and some other 'grey' literature is most likely to be held by H.E.R.s but is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded here, or elsewhere, but some suggestions can be found here.

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This record last updated on Monday, July 29, 2013

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