NHER 24216 (Monument record) - Roman settlement and saltern northeast of Hill Farm
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL59NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | NORDELPH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
9 December 1987. Fenland fieldwalking, good conditions, weathered soil, young cereal.
Concentration of sparse Roman pottery, brick fragments moderate to abundant, odd fragment of shell and bone set in dark soil matrix (red-brown from brick, rather than grey-black). On north side of canal or roddon (see NHER 2796). May have been truncated by former dyke on east side. About 43m north to south x 42m east to west at 1.3m OD. NDH 4.
R. Silvester (NAU) 9 December 1987.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S1).
(S2) records this as the site of a Roman settlement dating form the 2nd to 4th centuries AD, one of a number of settlements recorded alongside the course of the Fen Causeway Roman road (NHER 2796). (S2) also records the presence of briquetage on the site, suggesting that salt-making was taking place on the site.
See (S2) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 2 August 2006
Associated Sources (4)
- --- SNF16132 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NDH 4. FENS.
- --- SNF61554 Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S1> SNF58493 Archive: Fenland Folders.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)
Object Types (5)
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Undated)
- BRICK (Undated)
- MOLLUSCA REMAINS (Undated)
- BRIQUETAGE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
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Record last edited
Apr 24 2018 12:30PM