Record Details
| NHER Number: | 25060 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Roman settlement |
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Summary
Fieldwalking has recovered fragments of Roman pottery, suggesting that this is the site of a Roman settlement, 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 5292 9946 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL59NW |
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| Parish: | NORDELPH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
January 1989. On north side of fen causeway roddon. Area 20m east to west x 10m north to south. Conditions: good, well-weathered ploughsoil. Patches of grey ashy soil.
Small concentration of pottery with a single fragment of bone noted. Small and sparse concentration of pottery with a single fragment of bone. Patches of grey ashey soil on north side of fen causeway roddon.
R. Silvester (NAU), 2 January 1989.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S1).
(S2) records this as the site of a Roman settlement, one of a number of similar sites identified along the course of the Fen Causeway Roman road (NHER 2967).
See (S2) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 2 August 2006
Monument Types
- WATERCOURSE (Unknown date)
- SETTLEMENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Undated)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NDH 12. 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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