Record Details
NHER Number: | 19030 |
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Type of record: | Find Spot |
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Name: | Undated roddon, Roman pottery sherds and briquetage |
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Summary
Fenland fieldwalking here in 1983 recovered a scatter of Roman pottery and briquetage from the top of a roddon. No date was assigned to this extinct watercourse.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TF 5076 0978 |
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Map Sheet: | TF50NW |
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Parish: | WEST WALTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
16 February 1983. On side of roddon spreading over top.
Scatter of Roman pottery, not particularly dense but impossible to gauge precisely because vegetation has regenerated. Some briquetage. 130m x 50m west-to-east at 2.1m (7ft) OD.
Soil discolouration? - cannot be detected because of vegetation.
R. Silvester (NAU) March 1983.
For full details of wares, flint types etc. see Fenland Folders (S1).
Monument Types
- WATERCOURSE (Undated)
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- BRIQUETAGE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
--- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. WNW 25. FENS. |
--- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
<S1> | Archive: Fenland Folders. |
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