NHER 60057 (Monument record) - Iron Age and Early Roman pits and multi-period finds

1973. Excavation.
Excavation of single trial trench (Cutting I) across bridle path, on suggested line of Roman road (NHER 7598) running between the Roman settlement at Brampton (NHER 1124) and the Thorpe St Andrew riverside. This work revealed two pits, one containing a single sherd of Iron Age pottery and some potboilers, and the other containing Iron Age and Early Roman pottery. A peat deposit produced Roman pottery sherds, including a greyware waster and Samian. The overlying soil deposit produced additional sherds of Roman pottery and several unglazed medieval sherds (S1). Other unstratified finds recovered during this work included Mesolithic/Early Neolithic flint waste flakes, a Roman Colchester brooch (S2), an illegible copper alloy coin (probably Roman) and an undatable perforated whetstone (S3). All finds were retained by the finder.

There was no evidence that the bridle path was the Roman road, but it was noted that the nearby farm is called Street Farm, perhaps suggesting the bridle path was once a street.

Information from (S4), (S5), (S6) and (S7). See also notes in file for NHER 7598.
Previously recorded under NHER 7598.
E. Rose (NAU), 29 January 1990 and A. Cattermole (NLA), 23 October 2007. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 12 May 2014.