Little Carlton

Graham Vickers was prospecting in the farmlands of Little Carlton, a small village in Lincolnshire, when he discovered a silver stylus in a recently ploughed area. Styluses are ancient writing tools, designed to be used on wax tablets. Vickers quickly ...

Graham Vickers was prospecting in the farmlands of Little Carlton, a small village in Lincolnshire, when he discovered a silver stylus in a recently ploughed area. Styluses are ancient writing tools, designed to be used on wax tablets. Vickers quickly ...

Archaeologists excavate in plowed fields near the village of Little Carlton in Lincolnshire, England. A faint inscription on a lead tablet from the island settlement reads "Cudburg,"; This silver stylus with a carved end was the first exciting artifact ...

In one of the most startling archaeological finds of its kind, a long-abandoned island bearing Anglo-Saxon artifacts has been rediscovered in the vicinity of Louth, Lincolnshire. Discovered at Little Carlton, the island was stumbled upon by Graham ...

In 2011 Graham Vickers was scouring a barley field outside the quiet English village of Little Carlton with his metal detector when he found a medieval writing implement buried in the freshly plowed soil. Although the ornate silver stylus had lain ...

The island which was home to a Middle Saxon settlement was found at Little Carlton near Louth, Lincolnshire by archaeologists from the University of Sheffield. It is thought the site is a previously unknown monastic or trading centre but researchers ...