NHER 22645 (Monument record) - Possible medieval saltern mounds
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TF62SW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | KING’S LYNN, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
Complex of Saltern mounds?
Context 1 is large mound centred at grid reference, 2m high undoubtably saltern mound, under orchard. Deserves protection as owner may sell.
Context 2 at TF 6105 2015. To northeast under Kempe Road another possible mound.
Other possible outlying mounds under St. Peter's Road.
Context 3 at TF 6112 2003
Context 4 at TF 6116 1995
Context 5 at TF 6122 1990
all KLY 20. 3.6m OD.
Visited by R. J. Silvester (NAU), 16 May 1986.
R.J. Silvester (NAU), 29 May 1986
1989-1990. Fenland Evaluation Project.
Auger traverse across saltern mound in orchard.
Dossier prepared for HBMC containing recommendations on preservation copy in file.
M. Leah (NAU), August 1990.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see Fenland Folders.
These salterns were not recorded by the National Mapping Programme, perhaps because they were less visible due to use of this area as an orchard.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 13 May 2019.
Associated Sources (5)
- --- SNF15571 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. KLY 20. FENS.
- --- SNF58493 Archive: Fenland Folders.
- --- SNF8173 Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1988. The Fenland Project Number 3: Marshland and Nar Valley, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 45.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)
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Record last edited
May 13 2019 3:15PM