NHER 4235 (Monument record) - Roman salt works

1931.
Roman sherds and building material found, including bricks, roof tiles, hypocaust tiles and animla bones, oyster shells.

1961.
Roman salt working site located

1964.
Roman hut sites and salterns found whilst deep ploughing.
Roman pottery dating from 2nd to 4th centuries (S5).

1965.
Roman sherds found.

1967.
Roman figurine of Dea Nutrix with 2 infants, made in France.

1974.
Aerial photograph record of linear and rectilinear cropmarks.

1980.
Roman (2nd to 3rd century) pottery and briquetage.

Pre 1987. Found with metal detecting.
Roman coin.

1987. Fenland fieldwalking.
Roman briquetage and sherds.
R. Silvester suggests that this is a possible peat turbary, see (S1).

1993. Excavation.
Trenches excavated as part of the Fenland Management Project.
This work revealed briquetage, Roman fields.
See report (S3) and NHER 4233. See also details and site plans in file. The results of this work are summarised in (S4).
E. Rose (NLA) 29 March 1996.

For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S2).

6 October 1993. NLA air photography.
NAU excavation on Fen causeway/ Roman fields.
Cropmark of linear feature (possible causeway) still visible.
H. Clare (NLA) 1 February 2001.

22 July 1996. NLA air photography.
Cropmarks visible.
H. Clare (NLA), 4 December 2001.

25 July 1996. NLA air photography.
Cropmarks of enclosures and fields associated with the road still visible.
S. Massey (NLA), 22 November 2001.