The Lincolnshire Wolds combines a dramatic western scarp, rolling chalk uplands with steep-sided dry valleys and former sea cliff on the eastern edge.

The base for this diverse landscape lies beneath our feet - the geology. Rocks are the solid geology, such as chalk, limestone and sandstone that were laid down in the Cretaceous period, between 140 - 75 million years ago.

Gaumer Hill, a chalk capped outlier - off the Bluestone Heath Road

The Archaeology of the Wolds

The Lincolnshire Wolds are rich in archaeology of all periods from the earliest Stone Age to recently disused Cold War military sites. The downloadable pdf file on the right is an essay entitled 'The Wolds before AD 1000' that discusses the archaeology of the Lincolnshire Wolds from the Palaeolithic to the late Anglo-Saxon period.

  The Wolds before AD 1000

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From being under a tropical sea, then covered in ice, to eventually becoming the highest eastern point between Yorkshire and Kent, the Wolds landscape that we see today has undergone immense change

You can request a 'Geology of the Lincolnshire Wolds' leaflet from our publications page