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| Name: | Red Hill Roman Temple, Ratcliffe on Soar |
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| HER Number: | M542 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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Summary - not yet available
Monument Types
- TEMPLE? (Ro, Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status
- Scheduled Monument 150: Roman site on Red Hill
Full description
There is scope for suggesting that Red Hill was a site of considerable importance in the Ro period. Its location on a prominent hilltop commanding the junction of the Soar and the Trent would be suitable for a trading centre or temple site. Temple sites were often placed in this position on the boundaries of a territory. The finds are above average quality and quantity for this part of the Trent Valley. Greenfield's excavations confimed the existence of a building and the lead curses strengthen the evidence that this could be a temple or a shrine. (1)
The excavation in 1992 confirmed the position of the earlier excavation but failed to locate evidence for the shrine, increasing the possibilty that is has been removed by safety work already undertaken by the landowner. (2)
Grid ref for temple site is estimated.
See M500 for Ro settlement, M8869 for IA settlement.
<1> Thoroton Society, 1982, TTS, p 31 (Published document). SNT395.
<2> Reeves P, 1992, Evaluation Exc at Red Hill (Published document). SNT1181.
Related records
| L8894 | Parent of: RED HILL: Roman buildings from Greenfield's Site 2, Ratcliffe on Soar (Element) |
| L8899 | Parent of: RED HILL: Roman evidence from Trench 2, CEU evaluation, Ratcliffe on Soar (Element) |
| L8893 | Parent of: RED HILL: Roman finds by Wilson, Ratcliffe on Soar (Element) |
| L542 | Parent of: RED HILL: Roman finds from excavation at Ratcliffe on Soar, 1963 (Element) |
| M500 | Part of: Red Hill Roman Town, Ratcliffe on Soar (Monument) |
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