Record Details
| NHER Number: | 2041 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible Roman road and undated well |
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Summary
An area where crops wouldn't grow has been noted in this field. This has been interpreted as a Roman road because of the amount of Roman pottery and iron working waste found nearby. Reports also suggest there was an undated well here. It was filled with building material, perhaps from a small chapel that may have stood nearby.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 947 376 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF93NW |
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| Parish: | WALSINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1957. Fields north and east of North Norfolk Ironworks.
Infertile strip about 4.88m (16 feet) wide through field (?road).
Much Roman pottery and iron slag, late 1st to 3rd century or later.
Brickwork of building (called 'chapel') in field used to fill up 'dead well' on southwest.
See (S1) and (S2).
Reported in (S3) by [1].
R. R. Clarke (NCM).
Context 1. For ngr see Notes.
Bronze coin 25mm diameter of Constantius Chlorus AD 293 to 306. Obverse. CONSTANTIVS NOB C R/GENIO POPVLI ROMANI. PLG.
See [2].
R. R. Clarke (NCM).
[3] reports a well found in this field in 1995 but in the southeast corner not the southwest, and so perhaps not the same as the 'dead well' mentioned above, unless one of the two accounts is inaccurate.
E. Rose (NLA), 19 March 2004.
Monument Types
- ROAD (Unknown date)
- WELL (Unknown date)
- ROAD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (Undated)
- METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Undated)
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 93 NW 20. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Unpublished Document: Gregory, T.. 1985. Great Walsingham/Wighton ?Roman Town?. 6 February. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Walsingham (Great) [2]. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Document: Rigg, F.. 1957. Letter. Roman road and dead well.. |
| <S2> | Map: Finder's Map.. |
| <S3> | Serial: 1957. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries. No 4. p 5. |
Related records
| 42850 | Parent of: Great Walsingham and Wighton Roman town (Monument) |
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