Monument record MCC8841 - Red hill, south of Langenhoe Hall, Langenhoe

Summary

Red hill (saltern) RH 89 excavated in 1906 under the direction of Francis W. Reader and the Red Hills Exploration Committee (Langenhoe no. III).

Location

Grid reference Centred TM 0169 1676 (137m by 168m)
Map sheet TM01NW
Civil Parish LANGENHOE, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

Map

Type and Period (2)

Full Description

Red hill RH 89 (Langenhoe III), excavated in 1906. Finds consisted of briquetage, late Iron age pottery, animal bone, and in particular an omphalos bowl and pedestal urn, both of which were in a slight hollow under the red hill.<1><4> Nothing visible on aerial photographs.<1> The omphalos bowl has a flat tooled interlocking arc pattern and circular stamps, but the rim is missing. There is also a pot decorated with double concentric circle stamps and flat tooled lines. The site is now destroyed.<2> Other refs: <3><5>-<9><13>

The extent of the red hill was mapped as part of the NMP update August 2009 and was visible on the 2000 AP's and google earth images.<11>-<12>

Sources/Archives (13)

  • <1> RECORD SHEET/FORM: Ordnance Survey. unknown. OS cards. TM01NW10, 1976.
  • <2> DESC TEXT: Priddy, DA. unknown. SMR.
  • <3> DESC TEXT: Powell, WR. 1963. Victoria County History, Essex, Vol III (VCH). Vol 3, p.151.
  • <4> DESC TEXT: Reader, FW. unknown. Proc Soc Antiq. Vol 22, pp.171-173.
  • <5> DESC TEXT: Ward-Perkins, JB. 1938. Proc Prehist Soc. Vol 4, p.166.
  • <6> DESC TEXT: Erith, FH. 1968. Pedestal Urn with Omphalos Bowl. Vol 11, No 4, p.35.
  • <7> DESC TEXT: Ellison, AB. 1978. Stamp and Rouletted pottery of the late La Tene period in Eastern England. p.78.
  • <8> AP: RAF. 1950. 58-514 pt2 5319-5320.
  • <9> Artifact: Colchester Museum. unknown. ARTEFACT Col Mus.
  • <10> AP: Strachan, David. 1996. CP/96/73/1-2.
  • <11> AP: Google Earth. 2006-2014. Google Earth Online Resource. Viewed Aug 09.
  • <12> Map: Ingle, CJ, Strachan, D, Tyler, S and Saunders, H. 1993-2012. NMP Cropmark Plot - 1:10,000.
  • <13> Monograph: Fawn, A.J., Evans, K.A., McMaster, I. and Davies, G.M.R.. 1990. The Red Hills of Essex. Salt-making in Antiquity.. Gazetteer Serial No. 89, pp.96-70.

Finds (3)

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Jun 19 2017 11:44AM

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