Archaeologists at work on the siteoff Spalding Road as part of the Spalding Western Relief Road (42440438)
Posted on 10/07/2020 9:58:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of Romans transporting salt from the outskirts of Spalding...
Two substantial ditches and holding tanks have been uncovered during the 16-week excavation...
He said: "Nothing was expected from the site prior to evaluation. There was an aerial photograph which showed a crop mark but there was no indication of the quality of the archaeology...
During the Roman period, Spalding and the surrounding area would have been creeks which would provide the ideal location for creating salt.
Romans would use a hearth to evaporate tidal water intobrine to create salt.
Mr McDaid said: "There are no signs that this was any sort of settlement but was purely for industrial use.
"We have what appears to be holding tanks for the brine."
Mr McDaid also said that substantial ditches were also found on the site.
He said: "There is a good case for them being used to transport salt away from the site."
Archaeologists have also found some fine Roman pottery at the site along with evidence of a medieval settlement.
Mr McDaid said: "We have the enclosure ditches of the settlement. We got pits with charcoal remains in them and there is possibly medieval salt making around there."
The artefacts will be sent to Lincoln University to be catalogued and a report will be compiled.
(Excerpt) Read more at archaeology.org ...
Not to be a word Nazi but the ‘’ing’’ here makes it sound as if this was all happening in the present. The ‘’ed’’ suffix would be more appropriate.
Spalded?
Hooray for your post!
LOL! “I shot two bucks. That the biggest game I shot all day!’’
OK...Other than salt, what have the Romans ever done for us?
They could have been for drying and preserving fish...................
Hooray for Captain Spaulding!.........................
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BMtqqHRvB8
He once shot an elephant in his pajamas!
How he got in his pajamas he’ll never know!.................
Probably was, and salt was used to pay Roman troops. The surviving records indicate that most of Rome's provinces, including Britain, rarely or never produced as much tax revenue as they cost to garrison and administrate.
So, a Roman soldier was not worth his salt?....................
Some of them spent way too much time in the bawdy houses shouting (in Latin) 'shake it baby shake it'.
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