Salterns at the end of the Salt Road: Firebeacon Lane
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Salterns at the end of the Salt Road: Firebeacon Lane
Image: © Chris Taken: 30 Mar 2016
For aerial shot see Image Looking towards New Farm and the sunlit rise in the land which corresponds to the saltern circles in the aerial shot. he Salt Road is Roman but as I understand it, it would also have served later (medieval) salt producers, whose technique consisted in bringing the salty sand and silt to the production site, where it was washed through to remove the salt. The sand and silt left behind made up the mounds. The track leading to the field of salterns is an unmade extension of the Salt Road, i.e. Firebeacon Lane.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.464217
Longitude
0.075021