Swanpool, Lincoln
53°12′54″N 0°34′41″W / 53.2149°N 0.57793626°W[1]
Swanpool is a suburb of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. It was built in the interwar period as a garden suburb.[2]
Archaeology
[edit]An industrial pottery kiln dating to the Roman period was discovered to the northeast of the Swanpool estate and excavated by Graham Webster and Norman Booth in 1945.[3][4] The kiln produced a wide variety of wares,[3] which were distributed throughout the Roman city of Lindum Colonia and as far as the Humber.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Swanpool, Lincoln". #GetOutside. Ordnance Survey.
- ^ "Swanpool Garden Suburb". Heritage Connect Lincoln. City of Lincoln Council. Archived from the original on 12 November 2010. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b Webster, Graham; Booth, Norman (1947). "A Romano-British Pottery Kiln at Swanpool, Near Lincoln". The Antiquaries Journal. 27 (1–2): 61–79. doi:10.1017/S0003581500017583. ISSN 1758-5309. S2CID 162814999.
- ^ "Roman pottery kilns in the Swanpool area of Lincoln". Lincs to the Past. Lincolnshire County Council. 24 June 2015. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
- ^ Tomber, Roberta; Dore, John, eds. (1998). "Swanpool Fabrics". National Roman Fabric Reference Collection. Study Group for Roman Pottery. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
Further reading
[edit]- Walker, Andrew (2014). Birchwood, Hartsholme and Swanpool: Lincoln's Outer South-Western Suburbs. Lincoln: The Survey of Lincoln. ISBN 978-0-9538650-9-3.
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