NHER 30288 (Monument record) - Cropmarks of Roman road
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG20SW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | CAISTOR ST EDMUND, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
29 June 1989 and 6 July 1992. NAU air photography.
Cropmarks of road approaching Venta from southeast.
D. Edwards (NLA)
1993/1994.
Line of cropmark (depression) crossed by drainage trench for gas pipe, but nothing seen. Subsequently in low sun a 'narrow line about 35.56cm (14 inches) wide' seen, running for two and a half miles and dead straight (checked by laser).
Information from [1].
D. Gurney (NLA), 19 April 1995.
The central grid reference for this site has been altered from TG 2378 0307 to TG 2423 0284.
March 2009. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks of Roman road running southeast from Roman town of Venta Icenorum (NHER 9786) towards Stoke Holy Cross are visible on aerial photographs (S1-S6). A section of the line of this road is preserved with the modern route of Chandler Road. The site is centred on TG 2423 0284 and the cropmarks of the road are visible intermittently from TG 2352 0318 to TG 2500 0247. The central and metalled road surface is only partially visible along the route and is ranges in width from 3m to 11m. The roadside ditches, which are generally 15m apart, define the route of the road more clearly and produce quite clear cropmarks in comparison with the actual road surface. See NHER 52228 and 52322 for discussion of probable contemporary boundaries and fields running to either side of the Roman road. This road would appear to link with another stretch of Roman road to the southeast (NHER 52298), which runs intermittently from Upper Stoke, across the former Poringland Heath and joining with the Roman road to Ditchingham, Stone Street, at Brooke to the southeast. See record NHER 52298 for details.
S. Horlock (NMP), 23 March 2009.
Associated Sources (8)
- --- SNF12832 Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.. TG2303 ACP.
- --- SNF12865 Aerial Photograph: TG2402A, B, C, and E, F.
- <S1> SNF75737 Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.. 1977. NHER TG 2402E (NLA 45/AJB1) 19-JUL-1977.
- <S2> SNF75738 Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.. 1989. NHER TG 2303AMQ-R (NLA 230/DLF12-3) 29-JUN-1989.
- <S3> SNF74117 Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.. 1990. NHER TG 2303ALH (NLA 262/GAD6) 13-JUN-1990.
- <S4> SNF74125 Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.. 1992. NHER TG 2303AHA-B (NLA 307/GKX15) 06-JUN-1992.
- <S5> SNF75739 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1992. OS/92336 133-6 11-JUN-1992.
- <S6> SNF71335 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Google Earth. ? - present. Google Earth Orthophotographs. https://earth.google.com/web. 02-JUL-2006 Accessed 16-JUL-2010.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (6)
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Record last edited
Jul 26 2022 8:01AM