Undated red hill or saltern, 'Red Hill XII', shoreline near Rolls Farm (EHER 12141)

This red hill or saltern is likely to indicate Late Iron Age or Roman saltworking, and is adjacent to another similar feature, EHER 12143. This area is labelled 'Red Hill' on Ordnance Survey base-mapping.

Red hill marked on OS map. <1> Red Hills Exploration Committee XII Goldhanger. <2> <3> No. 72 in Rodwell's list. <4> Also marked on Colchester Museum map. <5> <6> Site Assessment = More information needed. See also <7> <8> <9>. This red hill or saltern is likely to indicate Late Iron Age or Roman saltworking, and is adjacent to another similar feature, EHER 12143. Both are visible on Google Earth imagery from 2021. <10> NRHE data transfer: (TL 9465 0835 sited from map) Red Hill. (Iron Age/Roman salt industry - see EHER 12107). <11> September 1972. Field survey. There is no trace of a Red Hill at Wilmer's siting, an area under stubble exhibiting clean earth only. Some 100.0m to the NW at TL 9457 0841, is a ploughed-down Red Hill, about 0.5m high, extending over and area about 50.0m in diameter. It is composed of red earth with an admixture of briquetage. <12>