Early Settlement at Lincoln

Abstract

Evidence for prehistoric activity and settlement in the area covered by the modern city of Lincoln has accumulated gradually. Published accounts of the material from Lincoln have treated it as part of a wider study of the county as a whole, while excavations on various sites in the city prior to 1972 had produced a number of prehistoric artefacts, all occurring in secondary contexts. Since these were residual, a distribution map would not necessarily be of any significance, but it is true that the vast majority were found in the lower part of the city, in the vicinity of (or on the bed of) the River Witham.

Religious place and its interaction with urbanization in the Roman era

“…Webster, 1995: 451), would have been important. Here, evidence for a late first-century BC roundhouse and some possible rectangular structures (Darling and Jones, 1988: 5-6) was uncovered but, although there was nothing to suggest their function, the location may indicate that they were special in some way.…”

Exploring Late Iron Age Settlement in Britain and the Near Continent

“…These were associated with watery settings and foci of activity including metalworking and coin production. The religious significance and magical nature attached to metalworking and the minting of coinage in prehistory (Budd and Taylor 1995;Haselgrove and Wigg-Wolf 2005, 12;Hingley 1997) would also have contributed to the special nature of these sites, integrated with the religiously-imbued watery setting as studied by Haselgrove and Millett (1997, 284 (Figure 2; Darling and Jones 1988) and there are suggestions that there may also have been activity beneath the colonia itself (Jones and Stocker 2003, 28-30), much of which would have been lost through its construction. A triple linear bank and ditch system to the north of the later town (ibid, 30-1) appears to lead to the site and was possibly even designed to direct movement to this religiously-imbued location.…”