Beacon Hill (Lincolnshire)
The Beacon Hill ( German "Leuchtfeuerhügel" ) is a Bronze Age non-megalithic round hill ( English Round Barrow ) southwest of the cemetery of Old Clee, in the middle of Cleethorpes , near Grimsby in North East Lincolnshire in England . The name Beacon Hill is common in England. In Hampshire is the Beacon-hill-seven-barrows-field and the Beacon Hill Hillfort in Burghclere.
Beacon Hill was partially excavated in the 1930s when worked Neolithic flint stones were discovered around the hill . Its current dimensions of around 18.0 by 10.0 meters at a height of almost 2.0 meters are the foothills of what was once about 14.0 meters long, 7.0 to 8.0 meters wide and 3.0 meters high north-west -Southeast oriented, oval hill. Chances are it was originally a non-Megegalithic long hill , although its small size would make it the smallest in Lincolnshire. It is likely that the slightly elevated area of land between Cleethorpes and Scartho was valuable to the area's earliest inhabitants and likely remained during the Bronze Age , which the hill dates from.
The excavators found remains from this period, including a simple, large urn which, in addition to cremated remains, contained four smaller urns, each of which contained the remains of a child. The smaller urns were decorated, as was another nearby urn, which also contained the cremation remains of a child. The finds were well above the original area and are regarded as secondary graves, the primary burial has not yet been found and is presumably undisturbed. An Anglo-Saxon vessel was also found, which probably belongs to a lost burial on the hillside. The hill was used in the Middle Ages as the location of a beacon, which also gave the place its name, it could be that the shape of the hill was changed from a circle to an oval at that time - although the reason for this is unknown.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '12.5 " N , 0 ° 2' 23.9" W.