Roman red hill at Redward Farm, Burnham-on-Crouch (EHER 11292)

A red hill, now ploughed out. Roman salt mound with finds of pottery, briquetage, oyster shells and brick, possibly split across two locations.

Red hill now ploughed out. Roman pottery, including Samian, found on the surface during fieldwalking. All the Samian fragments are of the 2nd century. Pottery and oyster are scattered all around the site; burnt earth is more concentrated to the South of the site and oyster shells to the North. Fieldwalking produced fragments of briquetage, tile, cinder, some modern china and glass, and solely Roman pottery. Also recorded from the site are fragments of post medieval pottery, fragments of Roman coarse wares, fragments of Roman brick, slag, pieces of granite, and tiny fragments of lava. There is a concentration of pieces of slag in the field to the East of the red hill. <1> The OS card notes two possible red hills here, the first (site 'A') at TQ 98529578, ploughed out, fieldwalked by C. Couchman which produced Samian (form 18/31), briquetage, oyster shells and Roman brick. The second (site 'B') at TQ 98459586 comprises burnt earth, oyster shells and Roman coarse ware and may be a duplication of the first red hill; it is also ploughed out. <2> <3> A red hill at Redward Farm. <4> Three pieces of pottery illustrated in SMR. <5> An additional reference to site 'A' but the grid reference is incorrect. The area of a red hill was field walked following a condition on a planning application. Sherds of Roman pottery were found, including the usual range of grey, buff-grey and orange coarse wares. There were also three sherds of Samian, two small and indeterminate, one Drag. f. 18/31 with the very end of a stamp surviving, all 2nd century, two certainly Lezoux, the third possibly Les Martres-des-Veyre. <6> Site Assessment: Red hill ploughed out by 1974. <1> Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import.