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Description: | PRN 36440
This site was first identified during Fenland Survey fieldwalking when a dark soil stain and pottery of Romano-British date were noted.{1}
Augering and a magnetic susceptibility survey were carried out as part of the Fenland Evaluation Project. The magnetic susceptibility survey detected an anomaly interpreted as a possible hearth.{2}
Excavation was carried out as part of the Fenland Management Project. A rectilinear system of ditches with an associated hearth and other features were recorded. Two flat-bottomed features aligned east/west and at right angles to a deeper ditch were thought to be settling tanks or evaporating pans spurred off a main tidal channel or feeder ditch. The hearth had a thin fired clay lining, and two pits lay adjacent to its southern side. A linear depression aligned east/west was thought to be a track. A post may have been part of a shelter designed to prevent brine dilution by the rain. The pottery assemblage spanned the later first to mid-second century and comprised mainly cookware. Environmental sampling indicated a saltmarsh environment which became progressively more tidally affected, eventually flooding in the late Roman period. The habitat was open with a few trees. Local cereal cultivation and processing was indicated. Wood and/or charcoal and cereal processing waste appear to have been used as fuel. Archaeomagnetic dating on a hearth bottom gave two possible date ranges - 294-375 cal. AD and 125-188 cal. AD - the latter sitting comfortably with the pottery date range.{2} | Subjects: | General Archaeology Salt Making Site | Temporal: | 70 - 150 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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