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Monument details

Summary

Pit containing Roman finds (briquettage, wasters, pottery) at Slayhills Saltings

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• PIT (PIT, Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• POTTERY KILN? (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

• COIN (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
• BRIQUETAGE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Full description

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TQ 87 SE 16. A pit below high tide level at Slayhills excavated in 1949-54 was found to contain charcoal, briquettage and pottery sherds - ? wasters, dating from the 1st century (1). Probable pottery kiln nearby, records of site location not now traceable.(8) Additional reference to Slayhills Marsh sites (2). Additional index entries (3-10) Today with the sea wall breached, the marsh is subject to constant erosion and even at low tide the ground surface is reduced to narrow and discontinuous strips of land between the creeks. There is now no evidence of Kilns or Roman occupation visible in the area of the published name i.e. in the marsh proper, but some 350m. to the west near the Strayway in the area centred at ** there is a concentration of Kiln debris and wasters (see diagram and TQ 87 SE 42, 43, 44 and 45). (5)

In the winter of 1950/1951 an oval structure of baked red clay, measuring some 4ft x 1.5ft and similar to the ovens in the huts noted by RCAHM Essex (plate facing p.36), was seen in mud just off the Strayway at ** and photographed before it was destroyed (copy supplied). Similar structures had been noted previously in thearea centred at **. The coins noted by Gray in Num. Chron. (1954) were found 1948-52 along the seaward shore of the Strayway in the area centred **; they remain in his possession. (6)

TQ 87 SE 16. A pit below high tide level at Slayhills excavated in 1949-54 was found to contain charcoal, briquettage and pottery sherds- ? wasters, dating from the 1st century.(7) Probable pottery kiln nearby, records of site location not now traceable.(8) Additional reference to Slayhills Marsh sites.(9) (7-9)

<2> Pottery kilns of Ro Brit RCHME Supp Ser 5 1984 417 (VG Swan) (OS Card Reference). SKE48558.

<3> OS 6" 1906-38 (OS Card Reference). SKE48316.

<4> Num Chron 6th ser 15 1954 201-3 (PHK Gray) (OS Card Reference). SKE47725.

<5> Rec 6" (RF Jessup) (OS Card Reference). SKE49076.

<6> Arch Cant 64 1951 168-171 (I and A Noel Hume) (OS Card Reference). SKE35380.

<7> F1 CFW 10.8.63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42508.

<8> Oral Sgn Cdr PH Ker Gray Frankfield Farnham Lane Haselmere (OS Card Reference). SKE47986.

<9> Arch Cant 68 1954 77 (I Noel Hume) (OS Card Reference). SKE35440.

<10> 8 Archaeologia 29 18 225 (C Roach Smith) (OS Card Reference). SKE32750.

<11> Field report for monument TQ 87 SE 16 - August, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4663.

<12> Field report for monument TQ 87 SE 16 - November, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4664.

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