Record Details
| NHER Number: | 4437 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Roman settlement and salt works |
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Summary
An excavation in 1998 revealed evidence of Roman settlement and salt-production. The cropmarks of a possible Roman field system are visible on aerial photographs. Metal detecting on the site has recovered a Bronze Age razor, a large amount of Roman pottery, coins and metal finds including two brooches, an Early Saxon girdle hanger, a Late Saxon brooch and medieval and post medieval coins and metal finds.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 52 94 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL59SW |
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| Parish: | WELNEY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Pre 1946.
Circles seen as cropmarks.
See (S1).
R.R. Clarke (NCM) suggests Roman origin, but Mr Riley now believes all these small circles are for drying haystacks in recent times.
E. Rose (NAU).
No trace on ground (or of any other of Riley's circle sites).
A.J. Lawson (NAU) 6 August 1976.
17 July 1990. NAU air photography.
No trace of circles; but what may be cropmarks of Roman fields noted (vague rectangles).
D. Edwards (NAU).
1998.
A trench has revealed Roman pottery and briquetage.
Finds identified - see list and report in file.
See also (S2).
D. Gurney (NLA) 12 August 1998.
1998 to 1999. Metal detecting.
24 Roman coins.
6 medieval coins.
Post medieval coin.
Bronze Age razor (S3).
Roman, Early Saxon, Middle Saxon, Late Saxon, medieval (S4), post medieval and undatable metal objects.
Decorated medieval floor tile.
Including some material previously reported.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 23 February 2002.
Monument Types
- RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE (Unknown date)
- RING DITCH (Unknown date)
- SITE (Unknown date)
- FINDSPOT (Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 701 BC)
- FIELD SYSTEM (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Roman to 19th Century - 43 AD to 1900 AD)
- SALT WORKS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- SETTLEMENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Unknown date)
- RING (Unknown date)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Unknown date)
- WEIGHT (Unknown date)
- RAZOR (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
- RAZOR (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- BRIQUETAGE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- LAMP (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- QUERN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- GIRDLE HANGER (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- PIN (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- BROOCH (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- AMPULLA (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- CAULDRON (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- CAULDRON (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FLOOR TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- HARNESS PENDANT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- JEWS HARP (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- WEIGHT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BELL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- BUTTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- FURNITURE FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- HARNESS FITTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- SWORD BELT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- THIMBLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- VESSEL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: TL 5294 C,D. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Welney. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Riley, D.N.. 1946. Antiquity. Antiquity. Vol XX, p 153 fig.2. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. (eds). 1999. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1998. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIII Pt II pp 369-387. p 385. |
| <S3> | Illustration: Holness, A. 1999. Drawing of a Middle/Late Bronze Age copper alloy razor. Card. 1:1. |
| <S4> | Illustration: Ashley, S. 2000. Drawing of a medieval copper alloy horse harness pendant. Film. 2:1. |
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