Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8646 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Roman salt works |
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Summary
This was recorded as the site of a Roman salt works in 1926. Nothing was visible when the site was visited in 1934.
Images - none
Location
Full description
'Site of saltpans' (Ordnance Survey 1926).
Visited 26 June 1934 by R.R. Clarke (NCM).
No trace of saltpans, a flat meadow.
Supposed to have been Roman, see (S1).
(S2) makes it clear this was discovered in excavating a drain. It was a 'square enclosure' and nearby was a 'submerged alder and ash thicket'.
E. Rose (NAU)
Monument Types
- ENCLOSURE (Unknown date)
- ENCLOSURE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- SALT WORKS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | 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 - Miscellaneous. Stokesby with Herringby. |
| <S1> | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 41 SE 2. |
| <S2> | Archive: Bolingbroke Collection. |
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