Archaeological investigations to the rear of the Red Lion pub in the centre of Broughton, near Scunthorpe, were undertaken in advance of a residential development.

The works exposed a series of stone buildings along a medieval street frontage, in use during the 13^th to 16^th centuries. Finds from the buildings were domestic in nature, including lace chapes, metal pins and a barrel padlock bolt.

Property boundaries divided the site into four plots, which were removed in the 16^th century to create a single parcel of land. In the following decades, the stone buildings were robbed, and two new buildings and a lime kiln was constructed, the kiln possibly to provide lime for the construction of the 17^th century Anderson Chapel at the nearby church.

The buildings appear to have been abandoned during the 18^th century, and there was no further activity at the site until the pub was built in the later 19^th century.