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Red hill or saltern, 'Red Hill XIII', shoreline near Rolls Farm (EHER 12157)

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Summary

A red hill marked on an Ordnance Survey map.

Map

Location

Grid reference Centred TL 9485 0858 (98m by 124m)
Civil Parish TOLLESBURY, MALDON, ESSEX

Type and Period

Description

Red hill marked on Ordnance Survey map. <1> Red Hills Exploration Committee Hill XIII Goldhanger. <2> <3> No. 71 in Rodwell's list. <4> EHER gives NGR as TL 9484 0847 and mentions 'Red hills'. <5> Site Assessment: More information needed. See also <6>. A red hill is visible at this location on Google Earth imagery from 2021. <7> NRHE data transfer: (TL 9480 0840 - sited from map) Red Hill. (Iron Age/Roman Salt industry - see EHER 12107). <8> 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 150m to the north at TL 9485 0856 is a ploughed down Red Hill, less than 0.3m high, extending over an area of about 100m in diameter. Red earth and Iron Age/Romano-British briquetage are in evidence. <9>

Finds

Sources

  • <1> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1975. TL 9408-9508. 1:2500.
  • <2> Article in monograph: Hull, M.R.. 1963. A History of the County of Essex. Victoria County History Volume III. pp.32-33.
  • <3> Article in serial: Reader, F.W.. 1908. Report of the Red Hills Exploration Committee 1907-8. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries. 23. 66. 2nd Ser, Vol 23, p.66.
  • <4> LIST: Rodwell, W.J.. unknown. Red Hills. Tollesbury, No. 71.
  • <5> DESC TEXT: Unknown. 1960 onwards. SMR form unknown. B.Watts.
  • <6> Aerial Photograph (Digital): Saunders, H.. 2021. EX21/10/014-017.
  • <7> Aerial Photograph: Google. Google Earth Online Resource. 07/09/2021.
  • <8> Serial: Society of Antiquaries of London. 1909-1911. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Volume 23. 23. Wilmer, H., p 68.
  • <9> PERSONAL OBSERVATION: Ordnance Survey. Field Investigator's Comments. JRL 06-SEP-72.

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Other References

  • Old SMR Number: TL90-052
  • NRHE identifier: 383362
  • National Monuments Record: TL 90 NW 11

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