Record Details
| NHER Number: | 25003 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Roman settlement and saltern |
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Summary
Fieldwalking has recovered fragments of Roman pottery and tile, suggesting that this is the site of a Roman settlement, one of a number of similar settlements that have been identified along the course of the Fen Causeway Roman road (NHER 2796). Briquetage has also been recovered from the site, suggesting that salt-making was carried out here in the Roman period.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 5392 9959 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL59NW |
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| Parish: | NORDELPH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Concentration of Roman pottery set in dark soil.
Pot (moderate), fired clay (abundant), tile (?x1), bone (x1). Conditions reasonable - newly drilled cereal, some weathering. Dimensions about 59m southwest/northeast x 48m northwest/southeast.
R. Silvester (NAU) 8 December 1988.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S1).
(S2) records this as the site of a Roman settlement dating from the 3rd and 4th centuries, one of a number of similar sites identified along the course of the Fen Causeway Roman road (NHER 2796). (S2) also records briquetage from this site, suggesting that salt-production was taking place at this site during the Roman period.
See (S2) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 2 August 2006
Monument Types
- SALTERN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- SETTLEMENT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Undated)
- BRIQUETAGE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NDH 8. FENS. |
| <S1> | Archive: Fenland Folders. |
| <S2> | Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52. p 109. |
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