Memorials of Old Lincolnshire
Memorials of the Counties of England
General Editor: Rev. P. H. Ditchfield, M.A., F.S.A., F.R.S.L., F.R.H.
Lincoln Cathedral, Evening.
E. R. Taylor pinx. Andre & Sleigh Sc.
Memorials of Old Lincolnshire
EDITED BY E. MANSEL SYMPSON, M.A., M.D. Author of “Lincoln” (Ancient Cities) Co-Editor of “Lincolnshire Notes and Queries”
With many Illustrations
LONDON GEORGE ALLEN & SONS, RUSKIN HOUSE RATHBONE PLACE 1911
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PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ERRATA
PREHISTORIC LINCOLNSHIRE
The Eolithic Period
The Paleolithic Period, or Old Stone Age
The River Drift Period and the Period of Cave Man
The Neolithic Period
The Neolithic Boats
Pottery of the Neolithic Period
Neolithic Burial Places
Life of the Neolithic People
The Pygmy Race of Man in Lincolnshire
Similarity in Design
What was the Use of these Pygmy Flints?
Pygmy Sites, Stations, or Dwelling Places
To what Period in the Stone Age must we attribute the Pygmy Race of Mankind?
Historical Reference to the Pygmy Races of Mankind
Small Dark-coloured People under the Middle Height
The Bronze Age in Lincolnshire
Clothing of the People in the Bronze Age
Bronze Age Burials
Entrenchments of the Iron Age
The Prehistoric Iron Age, 400 B.C.
THE ROMANS IN LINCOLNSHIRE
SAXON CHURCHES IN LINCOLNSHIRE
KIRKSTEAD CHAPEL
SOME SOUTH LINCOLNSHIRE CHURCHES
Spalding
Weston St. Mary
All Saints’, Moulton
St. Mary’s, Whaplode
All Saints’, Holbeach
St. Mary Magdalene, Fleet
St. Mary Magdalene’s, Gedney
Sutton St. Mary
THE CHURCH OF ST. ANDREW, HECKINGTON
BOSTON CHURCH
History
General Description
Monuments
Endowments
Rectors and Vicars
THE TOWN AND CHURCH OF GRANTHAM
STAMFORD
TATTERSHALL CASTLE AND CHURCH
Tattershall Church
THE SEPULCHRAL BRASSES OF LINCOLNSHIRE
ON MEDIÆVAL ROOD-SCREENS AND ROOD-LOFTS IN LINCOLNSHIRE CHURCHES
Parish Chancel-screens
LINCOLNSHIRE AND THE GREAT CIVIL WAR
DODDINGTON HALL
LINCOLNSHIRE FAMILIES
SPALDING GENTLEMEN’S SOCIETY
Postscript
FOOTNOTES
INDEX
