Record Details
| NHER Number: | 25063 |
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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 briquetage, suggesting that this is the site of a Roman settlement and saltern, one of a number of similar sites identified along the course of the Fen Causeway Roman road (NHER 2796).
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 5387 9978 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL59NW |
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| Parish: | NORDELPH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
January 1989.
Concentration of pottery (sparse to moderate).
Including fragment of briquetage and sparse bone.
Set in dark soil on west side of large roddon.
Approximately 50m northwest/southeast x 55m northeast/southwest. Pottery from a further 40m southeast. In all 90m northwest/southeast.
Conditions: good, weathered ploughsoil.
R. Silvester (NAU), 11 January 1989.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S1).
(S2) records this as the site of a Roman settlement dating from the 2nd to 3rd centuries AD, one of a number of similar sites identified along the course of the Fen Causeway Roman road (NHER 2796). Briquetage has also been recovered from the site, suggesting that salt-production was taking place here 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 (Undated)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NDH 13. 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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