NHER 25060 (Monument record) - Site of Roman settlement

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Summary

Fieldwalking has recovered fragments of Roman pottery, suggesting that this is the site of a Roman settlement, one of a number of similar sites identified along the course of the Fen Causeway Roman road (NHER 2796).

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Map sheet TL59NW
Civil Parish NORDELPH, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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January 1989. On north side of fen causeway roddon. Area 20m east to west x 10m north to south. Conditions: good, well-weathered ploughsoil. Patches of grey ashy soil.
Small concentration of pottery with a single fragment of bone noted. Small and sparse concentration of pottery with a single fragment of bone. Patches of grey ashey soil on north side of fen causeway roddon.
R. Silvester (NAU), 2 January 1989.

For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S1).

(S2) records this as the site of a Roman settlement, one of a number of similar sites identified along the course of the Fen Causeway Roman road (NHER 2967).
See (S2) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 2 August 2006

  • --- *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. NDH 12. 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)
  • POT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

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Record last edited

Mar 9 2012 5:12PM

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