NHER 19030 (Find Spot record) - 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.

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Map sheet TF50NW
Civil Parish WEST WALTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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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).

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. WNW 25. FENS.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Archive: Fenland Folders.
  • BRIQUETAGE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

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Record last edited

Oct 14 2013 4:14PM

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