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on the boundaries of occupation excavations at burringham road scunthorpe and baldwin avenue bottesford north lincolnshire
excavations at two sites in the southern suburbs of the modern industrial town of scunthorpe originally a rural landscape with a scatter of villages overlooking the river trent and its tributary bottesford beck . finds of flint tools show that humans had been around throughout prehistory ; by the late iron age the burringham road site probably lay at the southern limit of a settlement and for much of the roman period there is evidence of various activities mostly agriculture related and including several corn driers ; perhaps there was a villa nearby . the baldwin avenue site shows evidence of a middle saxon settlement with notable artefacts being three large lead vessels of a type that seems peculiar to the region . the title of the report reflects the fact that these two sites are peripheral to larger complexes but nevertheless provide good information about them .