Record Details
NHER Number: | 25059 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | Site of Roman settlement and saltern |
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Summary
Fieldwalking has recovered fragments of Roman pottery and Roman briquetage suggesting that this is the site of a Roman settlement and saltern, one of a number of similar sites identified along the course of the Fen Causeway Roman road (NHER 2796).
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TL 5298 9942 |
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Map Sheet: | TL59NW |
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Parish: | NORDELPH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
January 1989. Conditions: good, well-weathered ploughsoil.
Small and sparse concentration of pottery.
A few fragments of fired clay and a couple of oyster shell fragments. Set in dark grey soil on south side of fen causeway roddon. Area 19m east to west x 17m north to south.
R.J. Silvester (NAU), 2 January 1989.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S1).
(S2) records this the site of a Roman settlement dating from the 2nd to 4th centuries, one of a number of similar sites identified along the course of the Fen Causeway Roman road (NHER 2796). Briquetage has also been recovered from the site, suggesting that salt-making took place here during the Roman period.
See (S2) for more details.
Monument Types
- WATERCOURSE (Unknown date)
- SALTERN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- SETTLEMENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- BRIQUETAGE (Undated)
- MOLLUSCA REMAINS (Undated)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
--- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NDH 11. FENS. |
<S1> | Archive: Fenland Folders. |
<S2> | Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52. p 109. |
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