SALINAE
(Droitwich) Worcestershire, England.
As the Roman name, given in the
Ravenna Cosmography, implies, the settlement here was connected with salt
workings, but on the high ground E of Dodderhill traces
of military sites of the 1st c. have been investigated. The
only civil buildings studied are those in Bays Meadow,
where a tessellated pavement was found in 1849. A
winged-corridor house of 4th c. date was excavated in
1954-55. The site was enclosed with a ditch system of uncertain date of which only the NE corner survives.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
J. Allies,
Antiquities of Worcestershire
(1852) 98-106;
Trans. Birmingham Arch. Soc. 64 (1946)
39-52; 75 (1959) 1-23; military sites: ibid., 62 (1943)
27-31;
Trans. Worcs. Arch. Soc. 39 (1963) 55-58;
W.
Midlands Archaeol. News Sheet 8 (1973) 12f.
G. WEBSTER