NHER 25003 (Monument record) - 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.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TL59NW
Civil Parish NORDELPH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

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

  • --- *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.
  • ANIMAL REMAINS (Undated)
  • BRIQUETAGE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

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Record last edited

Sep 1 2015 6:40PM

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