The Excavation of A Red Hill at Peldon, Essex, With Notes on Some Other Sites

¹ Reader, F. W., ‘Report on the Red Hills exploration committee’, Proc. Soc. Ant. London, 2nd ser., xxii (1908), 164–5.

² de la Sauvagère, Recherches sur le nature et l'étendue d'un ancien ouvrage de Romain appelé communement le briquetage de Marsal (1740-70).

³ de Brisay, K. W., ‘Preliminary report of the exploration of the Red Hill at Osea Road, Maldon, Essex’, Colchester Arch. Gp. Bulletin, xv (1973), 22–43, and ‘A further report on the excavation of the Red Hill at Osea Road, Maldon, Essex’, ibid, xvi (1974), 19-36.

⁴ By kind permission of Mrs. K. A. Evans.

⁵ Akeroyd, A. V., ‘Archaeological and historical evidence of subsidence in southern Britain’, Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. A 272 (1972), 151–69, and Green, C., ‘East Anglian coastline levels since Roman times’, Antiquity, xxxv (1961), 21–8.

⁶ de Brisay, K. W., ‘The excavation of a Red Hill at Peldon, Essex. Report on the first year’, Colchester Arch. Gp. Bulletin, xviii (1974), 25–42.

⁷ Dr. J. B. Penfold, Consultant Pathologist, Essex County Hospital.

⁸ Gouletquer, P. L., ‘Niger, country of salt’, in de Brisay, K. W. and Evans, K. A. (eds.), Salt: the Study of an Ancient Industry (1975), pp. 47–51.

⁹ A. J. Clark, Ancient Monuments Research Laboratory, Department of the Environment.

¹⁰ The expert assistance rendered by Mr. Clark was invaluable. No funds were available and, without his help, such scientific research would not have been possible.

¹¹ Similar hearth floors have been found in the Upchurch marshes, Kent. Information kindly supplied by Mr. Alec Miles.

¹² de Brisay, K. W., Colchester Arch. Gp. Bulletin, xvi (1974), 30–1.

¹³ Ibid., xv (1973), 29-32, and xvi (1974), 30-1.

¹⁴ F. W. Reader, op. cit., p. 175, fig. 5.

¹⁵ Colchester Arch. Gp. Bulletin, xvi (1947), 33.

¹⁶ K. W . de Brisay, ibid, xvii (1975), 32.

¹⁷ F. W . Reader, op. cit., p. 195.

¹⁸ Field-walking by the author, 1976.

¹⁹ Do. 1975.

²⁰ Do.

²¹ Information kindly supplied by Mrs. B. Perren 1975.

²² Information kindly supplied by Mr. Brian Simmons at the ‘Salt Weekend’, 1974.

²³ Information kindly supplied by Mrs. M. U. Jones, 1973.

²⁴ Rodwell, W., ‘The Orsett Cock cropmark site’, Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. vi (1974), 13–39.

²⁵ Information kindly supplied by Mr. Peter Woods 1971.

²⁶ Field-walking by the author, 1975.

²⁷ F. W . Reader, op. cit., fig. 16 (10).

²⁸ Permission to study material in the Colchester Castle Museum is gratefully acknowledged.

²⁹ F. W. Reader, op. cit., p . 195.

³⁰ Fox, C., ‘Salt works at Hook, Warsash’, Hants Field Club, xiii (1935-1937), 105–9.

³¹ Information kindly supplied by Mr. J. B. Whitwell, 1975.

³² P. L. Gouletquer, op. cit., p. 50.

³³ Information kindly supplied by Mrs. M. U. Jones, 1976.

³⁴ Material presented to the Eastgate Museum House, Rochester, Kent by H . and J. Woodruff (1834-69).

³⁵ F. W. Reader, op. cit., pp. 200–1 , fig. 24.

³⁶ Field-walking by the author, 1975.

³⁷ Colchester Museum (n. 28).

³⁸ F. W. Reader, op. cit., fig. 13 (5).

³⁹ Field-walking by the author, 1973.

⁴⁰ Do. 1971-5.

⁴¹ Do. 1975.

⁴² Colchester Museum (n. 28).

⁴³ F. W . Reader, op. cit., fig. 18 (7).

⁴⁴ P. L. Gouletquer, op. cit., p. 50.

⁴⁵ Colchester Museum (n. 28).

⁴⁶ F. W. Reader, op. cit., fig. 15 (1 and 2).

⁴⁷ Kirkham, B., ‘Salt making sites found in northeast Lincolnshire since 1960’, in de Brisay, and Evans, (eds.), op. cit. (1975), pp. 41–2.

⁴⁸ Field-walking by the author, 1975.

⁴⁹ Do. 1965.

⁵⁰ Do. 1971-5.

⁵¹ Do. 1975.

⁵² Do.

⁵³ Reader, F. W., ‘Notes on briquetage found 1908-9’, Proc. Soc. Ant. London, 2nd ser., xxiii (1910), fig. 11 (5 and 8).

⁵⁴ Found by the late Mr. J. Giles at Ingoldmells, Lincolnshire (1957) at mid-tide level in a mass of briquetage. Information kindly supplied by Mr. Andrew White, Lincoln Museum.

⁵⁵ Information kindly supplied by Mrs. E. H. Rudkin.

⁵⁶ Baker, F. T., ‘Salt making sites on the Lincolnshire coast before the Romans’, in de Brisay, and Evans, (eds.), op. cit. (1975), pp. 31-2.