NHER 10199 (Monument record) - Probable Roman road

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Summary

The course of a probable Roman road, marked on old maps.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TM29SE
Civil Parish HEMPNALL, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Roman road suggested by Ordnance Survey map.

16 October 1953.
R.R.Clarke (NCM) found no evidence visible on ground, but noted Street Wood, more extensive on (S1) and tithe maps than present wood shown on Ordnance Survey (now felled).
(S2) marks the east to west road at this point as Roman. This idea seems to have been based solely on the ground that it was believed to lead to Tasburgh fort, then considered Roman, and it is a medieval road.
E. Rose (NAU), 1980.

See NHER 13652 for important reference to Roman road in Hempnall area. [1]'s dissertation refers to the north to south road indicated as Roman? By Ordnance Survey as being called Road Street in the 19th century; it is a hollow way.
The name Road Green on Ordnance Survey however is no connection, it is properly Rode Green, originally derived from Reddings Green.
E. Rose (NAU), 29 November 1985.

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Roman. Hempnall.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TM 29 SE 1.
  • <S2> Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797.

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Record last edited

Jul 19 2016 12:09PM

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