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Roman Nantwich: A Salt-Making Settlement

Excavations at Kingsley Fields 2002

£48.00
Author:
Peter Arrowsmith and David Power
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309590
Paperback:
200pp. Illustrated throughout. With additional material online (appendices).
ISBN 10:
1407309595
BAR number:
B557
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Description

BOOK DESCRIPTION
In 2002 the fullest evidence so far recovered for the Roman settlement at Nantwich, a historic salt-producing centre in Cheshire (north-western England), was revealed by an excavation carried out at Kingsley Fields, on the west side of the town, ahead ofa housing development. This uncovered a previously unknown Roman road, linking the settlement at Nantwich to the main road network, and, positioned along this, evidence for the collection and storage of brine and the production of salt, together with buildings, enclosures, a well and a small number of cremation burials. Waterlogged conditions meant that organic remains, including structural timbers, were well preserved on the site. These included the two finest examples of timber-built brine tanks excavated from Roman Britain. This volume presents the wide-ranging finds of these investigations.