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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 77 NE 15 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of a Roman salt workings, parish boundary, Cooling and Cliffe |
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Summary
Site of a suspected Roman salt workings. Reddish alluvial soil with bricky crumbs and occasional sherds of coarse black pottery have been observed on the parish boundary. An area of salt panning overlying the chalk has also been observed below this.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7514 7641 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ77NE |
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| Parish: | COOLING, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
Associated Finds
- SHERD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
| Protected Status: | Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: Roman salt-making site and midden identified from air photographs and field survey |
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Full description
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[TQ 7514 7641] Cooling. Roman (?) saltworkings. From 25m east of this point on the parish boundary the alluvial soil becomes reddish, with bricky crumbs and occasional sherds of coarse black pottery, continuing for about 100m eastward and covering an area of salt panning overlying the chalk, which is here about 2m below the surface (1). Details and setting in context of regional salt-working industry, see (2). Site photographs (2-5).
<1> Arch Cant 96 1980 380 (P Thornhill and P Payne) (OS Card Reference). SKE36255.
<2> Topping, P & Swan, V G, 1995, Early salt-working sites in the Thames estuary (Article in monograph). SWX9354.
<3> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9830.
<4> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9831.
<5> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9863.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1>XY | OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 96 1980 380 (P Thornhill and P Payne). [Mapped feature: #24875 ] |
| <2> | Article in monograph: Topping, P & Swan, V G. 1995. Early salt-working sites in the Thames estuary. 28-40. |
| <3> | Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 3031. print. |
| <4> | Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 3034. print. |
| <5> | Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 4057. print. |
