NHER 7947 (Monument record) - The Pye Roman Road

Trioa Roman road.
Enters Norfolk at Scole Bridge and runs to point opposite Caistor Roman town. Mainly under modern road but part survives as cropmarks.

Photocopy of photograph 1930 of section in Dunston Park in file. Also comments on suggested associated field system.
E. Rose (NAU), 22 Janaury 1990.

1992. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of the excavation of the pipe trench for the Yelverton to East Carleton Gas Pipeline. This work identified a number of features at the point where the pipeline crossed a track that lies on the putative course of the Pye Road. For safety reasons the section could not be cleaned and it was only possible to observed features from a distance, on the opposite side of the trench. Three cut features could be identified, all apparently ditches.
See report (S8) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S9).
P. Watkins (HES), 5 March 2015.

January 1993. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of road widening operations that coincided with the postulated line of this road adjacent to Dunston Common (Stoke Holy Cross; TG 2260 0273).
No deposits associated with the road could be seen in the sections examined. If, as suggested, this section of its line is represented by a north-to-south aligned farm track it is possibly that its use has destroyed any traces of the original road.
See report (S12) and NHER 65290 for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 7 February 2022.

March-April 1993. Trial Trench.
Evaluation of proposed golf course in Dunston Park.
Single trench excavated across road line (Context 2).
See report (S10) and description in file for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S11).
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2022.141).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 1 April 2015 and 5 December 2022.

27 July 1995. NLA air photography (S1).
Cropmarks of part of the road visible (from NGR TG22200100 to NGR TG22330150) in Swainsthorpe parish.
H. Clare (NLA), 20 April 2001.

14 June 1996. NLA air photography (S2).
Line of Pye Road visible as cropmark to south of Dunston Hall.
S. Massey (NLA), 8 August 2001.

2 July 1996. NLA air photography (S3).
Cropmark indicating the line of the Pye Road as it turns off the modern road course (A140).
The turnpike road course can be seen to run along a similar line.
S. Massey (NLA), 23 July 2001.

September 2005.
The Scole-Dickleburgh field system associated with the Roman Pye Road has been much discussed. (S4) suggests the field system is prehistoric and is cut by the line of the road. (S5) argues the system is Roman. (S6) supports the Roman theory. The system is now largely thought to be prehistoric (S7). See NHER 53075 for further information on this field system.
M. Dennis (NLA), 29 September 2005.

March 2009. Norfolk NMP.
The cropmarks of the section of this road running through Dunston Park are recorded under NHER 52170 and the section to the west of Caistor Roman town is under NHER 52197.
S. Horlock (NMP), 24 March 2009.