Lincolnshire NMP

The Lincolnshire project was one of the early National Mapping Programme (NMP) projects, undertaken between 1992 and 1997. Air photograph interpretation and sketch transcription, at a scale of 1:10,000, was undertaken for the County of Lincolnshire but excluded the area of the Lincolnshire Fens.

All archaeological features visible as earthworks and cropmarks were recorded to a terminal date of 1945, with the exception of plough levelled ridge and furrow and indiscriminate extraction. A wide variety of sites were identified from Neolithic mortuary sites through to twentieth century military remains.

More than 4000 new archaeological records were created for the National Monuments Record and another 1000 were updated. Summary versions of these records are available online via the Heritage Gateway. Selected topics of research were published in a series of thematic articles in Lincolnshire's Archaeology from the Air R Bewley (Ed) 1998.

The images used on this page are copyright English Heritage unless specified otherwise. For further details of any photographs or other images and for copies of these, or the plans and reports related to the project please contact the NMR English Heritage's public archive.

For further information on a project or any other aspect of the work of the Aerial Survey team please contact us at: AerialSurvey@english-heritage.org.uk.