Record Details
| NHER Number: | 40106 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Roman ditches and multi-period finds |
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Summary
Roman pottery, tile and brick fragments were found in 2003 on the beach in ditches lying at forty five degrees to the coastline. It is possible that this was a salt making site, but the results of further investigations are awaited. Additional Roman and Middle Saxon pottery sherds were recovered in 2013.
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Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 48 22 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG42SE |
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| Parish: | WINTERTON ON SEA, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK |
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Full description
December 2003. Found while walking on beach.
Ditches with Roman pottery lying stratified within them.
Finder notified Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service (NMAS) staff.
December 2003. Visited by T. Pestell and B. Ayers (NMAS).
Series of ditches lying at 45 degrees to the coastline. Possibility that it's a saltern site.
Looks to be covered with an ancient topsoil, also containing Roman pottery and building material.
T. Pestell has seen a photograph of a waterlogged wooden structure which is probably related but difficult to tell.
Details to come.
J. Allen (NLA), 26 January 2004.
Notes by [1] taken on 27/12/03, Roman pits, hearths, ditches, 'wickerwork circle', 'wood circle'. One pit was probably Middle Saxon. The very small amounts of brick/ tile are Roman or post- medieval.
See file.
Before 27 November 2008. Stray Find.
Found in unrecorded circumstances:
1 undatable prehistoric flint scraper.
1 undatable ?prehistoric flint flake from pebble core.
Identified by P. Robins (NCM), November 2008. See description in file [2].
P. Watkins (HES), 15 April 2020.
April-May 2013. Metal-detecting [3].
23 Roman pottery sherds.
6 Middle Saxon pottery sherds, including rim sherd of "ginger jar" type vessel (S1).
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 4 June 2013.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- DITCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- HEARTH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- PIT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- PIT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- TIMBER CIRCLE (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- WEIGHT (Unknown date)
- FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- CORE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- SCRAPER (TOOL) (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- BRICK (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- POT (Middle Saxon - 700 AD to 850 AD)
- POT (Middle Saxon - 720 AD to 850 AD)
- POT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- BRICK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- TILE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2013. Drawing of a rim sherd of probably Middle Saxon pottery vessel. Film. 1:1. |
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