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Little Sturton Rediscovered: Part 1 : The Grange of Kirkstead Abbey - Paul Everson and David Stocker
Sir Frank Stenton suggested that Kirkstead Abbey was first located at Great Sturton prior to a move a few miles along the north bank of the river Witham. There are several strong pointers in the original documents used by Stenton which infer that the early site was probably in Tattershall rather than Sturton. Close examination of several documentary sources and the local topography lend support to the view that Little Sturton in Baumber parish was in fact the site for a grange attached to Kirkstead Abbey.

New Sources Illuminate Lincolnshire Naturalist - Trevor Kerry
Revd Francis Linley Blathwayt (1875-1953) served in Lincolnshire churches until 1919 (later Dorset) and was an outstanding naturalist with a national reputation. A number of documents and other information - listed here - are available to provide detail about his life and work.
(Trevor Kerry has recently published an account of Blathwayt's life entitled: 'Of Roseates and Rectories')

Funerary Activity and Boundary Demarcation in the Lincolnshire Landscape - Nicola Toop and Andrew Copp
A recent archaeological watching brief and evaluation programme, during the construction of a gas pipeline between Silk Willoughby, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire, and Staythorpe Power Station, Newark, Nottinghamshire, encountered remains of all periods, from prehistory to the present day. Some of the most significant finds were represented by late Neolithic to Bronze Age burial monuments, and Iron Age pit alignments, encountered at the sites of Doddington Littlegate, Frieston Road, Normanton Heath, South Rauceby and Quarrington. It is suggested that both forms of monument would have served to demarcate territory and claim land.

The Rich of Bassingham, Lincolnshire: 1655-1799 - J A Johnston
Five parish documents listing land and property ownership are used to identify the more affluent members of Bassingham (11 miles south-west of Lincoln) over a period of a century and a half. By reference to other parish records the characteristics of these families (e.g. mobility, kinship, multiple landownership) are identified and discussed.
(Dr Jim Johnston, eminent Lincolnshire local historian and lecturer in history at Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln, died in 2007.)

Worlaby and the Witching Shoe: Two Thousand Years of Archaeology in a North Lincolnshire Village - Will Munford
A small excavation linked to housing development revealed a substantial Iron Age ditch, Anglo-Saxon pottery and the remains of medieval domestic properties.

Stagnation and Progress: Contradictions in the Inter-War English Village. Binbrook, Lincolnshire, 1918-1939 - Charles Rawding
The countryside of Eastern England during the inter-war period has been chacterised as being in economic decline with dwindling populations. However, as this study of Binbrook in the Lincolnshire Wolds reveals, this was only part of a more complex story where modernisation and change were taking place simultaneously with decline and stagnation.

Jeffrey May, 1936-2006, Obituary
Jeffrey May was one of the pre-eminent prehistorians of Lincolnshire, having worked on its archaeology for some 45 years. Among his many publications was the first volume, Prehistoric Lincolnshire, in the SLHA History of Lincolnshire series.

Industrial Archaeology Notes
Burgh le Marsh Windmill: Its Early History : Catherine Wilson
A detailed examination of the various sources of information about the original construction and later refitting of this fine 5-sailed mill in the nineteenth century.
Thorganby Hall Waterwheel: Jon A Sass
This small structure, a short distance from Thorganby Hall, houses a breastshot waterwheel which once ground corn but in the first half of the twentieth century powered an electrical generator serving the house and farm buildings.

Archaeology in Lincolnshire: 2004-2005
Site by site notes of work that has taken place at about 80 locations, largely as a result of development controlled by the planning system. (There are also notes of about 60 sites where a watching brief was carried out but results were substantially negative.) Full reports of the work have been deposited with the appropriate Historic Environment Record or Sites and Monuments Record, where they are available for consultation.

Book Reviews
Detailed reviews of 34 books and listing of 113 other newly issued books to do with Lincolnshire history, archaeology, places and people.