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Summary

Possible Roman harbour (site of), `Flashmire'. Within the Scheduled area of Old Winteringham.

Monument Types

• HARBOUR (RO, Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Protected Status - None

Associated Finds - None

Associated Events

• Aerial photographic survey
• Aerial photographic sortie, 1983
• Aerial photographic sortie, 1983
• Aerial photographic sortie, 1984
• Warren Single Field Turbine, Horkstow - Desk Based Assessment
• Aerial photographic sortie
• Aerial photographic sortie
• Aerial photographic sortie
• Aerial photographic sortie
• Aerial photographic sortie, 1976

Full description

'Flashmire'; believed to be the site of the Roman ferry terminal, described by de la Pryme in 1696 and by Stukely in 1724. Edward Trollope in 1868 recorded that ' a collection (of Roman coins) from Flashmire' (which he identifies as the present Winteringham Haven, centred on SE 935 229) 'was brought to myself when I visited the site of Ad Abum in 1855.'

The name "Flashmire" is marked on OS 1 in. 1st Ed. 1824 at SE 938 228 (near present Winteringham Haven), on OS 6 in. 1855 further E at SE 947 216, and on OS 1:10,000 1972 at SE 947 215. Cropmarks show a road in this area running along a low ridge towards the Humber Bank. (Dudley 1949, 147-149, refs. and accounts; Riley 1974, 375-7 fig. 1)

Trollope also stated that: 'A discovery was made here (Winteringham), and at Brough., during the remarkably dry summer of 1826, when the Humber was very low, viz., the remains of a raised causeway, or jetty, stretching out from both places, similar to the vadum descent in the Trent at Littleborough, and apparently of Roman construction.' [1, 2]

An Ordnance Survey field inspector visited this area in 1964 and could see northing of interest. He noted that Mr H Brumby recalled a 'large platform and spread mound' overlooking a natural hollow, but these had been ploughed away. This area (SE94802163) was considered by him and other locals as the original haven and ferry terminal. [3]

Aerial photographs [4 - 18]

<1> Loughlin, N and Miller, KR, 1979, A Survey of Archaeological Sites in Humberside, 222 (BOOK). SLS523.

<2> Harold Dudley, 1949, Early Days in North-West Lincolnshire, 147-8 (BOOK). SLS2608.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, Ordnance Survey/NAR/NMR/NRHE Records, SE92SW 11 (COLLECTION / PARENT). SLS1263.

<4> DN Riley, 1975, Untitled Source (AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH). SLS3145.

<5> DN Riley, 1984, Untitled Source (AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH). SLS3114.

<6> DN Riley, 1983, Untitled Source (AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH). SLS3113.

<7> DN Riley, 1983, Untitled Source (AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH). SLS3111.

<8> DN Riley, 1973, Untitled Source (AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH). SLS3106.

<9> RCHM, 1976, Untitled Source (AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH). SLS3105.

<10> RCHM, 1976, Untitled Source (AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH). SLS3102.

<11> DN Riley, 1973, Untitled Source (AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH). SLS3097.

<12> DN Riley, 1973, Untitled Source (AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH). SLS3096.

<13> DN Riley, 1978, Untitled Source (AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH). SLS1335.

<14> DN Riley, 1979, Untitled Source (AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH). SLS1328.

<15> DN Riley, 1976, Untitled Source (AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH). SLS1327.

<16> DN Riley, 1976, Untitled Source (AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH). SLS1326.

<17> DN Riley, 1978, Untitled Source (AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH). SLS1325.

<18> CUAC, 1964, Untitled Source (AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH). SLS1271.

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