More information : NY 488410. Roman camp south of Thiefside Cottages. (1)
NY 485410. Temporary Camp at Thiefside, scheduled in 1961 on recommendation of D Charlesworth, who said it was visible on an air photograph and had been confirmed by excavation. Plan sketched on DOE record map. (2-3)
The site is a feasible one but St Joseph has never mentioned the site and David Wilson knows of no air photograph for this in the Cambridge collection. There is nothing on the RAF vertical cover of 1948 or in the National Monuments Record so it is not known which photograph was seen by D Charlesworth. The former tenant's widow, I am told, recollects some work done at 'Sevy Pots' with a machine, but has no knowledge of the results. The site outlined on the DOE record map occupied the SW quarter of 'Seavy Pots' i.e. NY 485410 (given wrongly by DOE as 488410). (4)
This site has been re-classified as part of RCHME Roman Camps in England Project and rejected as a camp. When visited by R A H Farrar in June 1985 the tenant (resident since 1951) had no knowledge of the excavation claimed by DOE. (5)
Descheduled. (6)
Cropmarks on air photographs at this location reveal a double ditched trackway recorded in NY 44 SE 10. However, there is no evidence of a ditched enclosure in this same field, which would equate with a Roman camp. Other broad geological cropmarks directly south-west of Seavy pots pond, surrounding a natural outcrop may have been mistaken for a ditched enclosure. (7)
This area was re-examined for the Eden Petteril Caldew Transect project (Event UID 1592867). No features of archaeological signficance were identified in the south-west quadrant of the Seavy Pots field, but there are two caveats to this. Firstly the CUCAP air photo T35 taken 12th July 1947 was not available at the time of mapping and may show this area. Secondly a possible rectilinear enclosure was identified as a cropmark on the east side of this field but closer to the original NGR given in source (1) above. This enclosure is recorded in UID 1607577. (8)
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