Hanby is a

hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play (the ...

in the

South Kesteven South Kesteven is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. Its council is based in Grantham. The district also includes the towns of Bourne, ...

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, England. It is situated between Lenton and Ropsley Heath, on the line of the

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King Street. The nearest large town is

Grantham Grantham () is a market town and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road (Great Britain), A1 road. It lies south of Lincoln, England ...

to the north-west. Hanby is part of the

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of Lenton, Keisby and Osgodby .

Lost settlement

The hamlet is the location of a lost village of Hanby:

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number TF03SW15; location TF02703159. Past observers have concluded that there were house platforms with building materials, including stone roof

tile Tiles are usually thin, square or rectangular coverings manufactured from hard-wearing material such as ceramic, Rock (geology), stone, metal, baked clay, or even glass. They are generally fixed in place in an array to cover roofs, floors, wal ...

s, scattered around. Local finds include a

flint Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Historically, flint was widely used to make stone tools and start ...

scraper,

Anglo-Saxon The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a Cultural identity, cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced t ...

pot

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s and

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sherds. Aerial photographs show no shapes because the area has been ploughed over, but

cropmarks Cropmarks or crop marks are a means through which sub-surface archaeological, natural and recent features may be visible aerial archaeology, from the air or a vantage point on higher ground or a temporary platform. Such marks, along with parch m ...

show "two conjoined ditched enclosures . . . interpreted as possible crofts, with a small ditched enclosure". There was a

ridge and furrow Ridge and furrow is an Archaeology, archaeological pattern of ridges (Medieval Latin: ''sliones'') and troughs created by a system of ploughing used in Europe during the Middle Ages, typical of the open field system, open-field system. It is a ...

field to the north, but that was ploughed level too; however the farmer found Anglo-Saxon and medieval pottery in these fields. There is another lost settlement called Hanby at Welton le Marsh, or Hanby Hall, in the north of the county. File:King Street, Hanby, Lincolnshire - Geograph-329748.jpg , Modern road surface on the line of the Roman Road File:Open farmland at Hanby.jpg , House called ''Grand View''

References

External links

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Aerial photograph of Hanby

Old maps of Hanby: 1888, 1891 and 1905

Modern map of Hanby
Hamlets in Lincolnshire South Kesteven District Deserted medieval villages in Lincolnshire Archaeological sites in Lincolnshire {{Lincolnshire-geo-stub