While most Roman coin hoards are believed to have been buried for safe-keeping, with the intention of being eventually recovered, it is possible that hoards may instead sometimes represent communal votive offerings to the gods. No structural remains were detected with either hoard and the only associated archaeological material was the earthenware pot in which the first hoard was concealed. The first in June 1959, during work on the foundations of Manor Park Infants' School, Collyer Road, and the second during the building of a house in Crookdole Lane in about April 1960. More recently, two very similar coin hoards were unearthed at sites less than three hundred yards apart. 98-138), were found in 1797 in a broken pot somewhere in the parish. Nearly two hundred denarii, chiefly of Trajan and Hadrian (A.D. Three coin hoards are listed as having being found in Calverton. It may depict a fertility goddess, perhaps a local version of Venus. It is of a naked seated female personage with long hair, topped by a plain round head-dress. The dimensions of the camp are dictated by the size of the army unit.Ī lead figurine was found at ‘a hill-top site’ in Calverton. Marching camps traces are thought to be the remains of the entrenchments made by an army unit for an overnight stop, where there was the chance of an attack. A smaller one of four acres is set wholly within the defences of a larger, perhaps earlier, one of about twenty-six acres. Calverton is one of a number of settlements in the area (with Oxton, Bulcote and Lambley), which contain animal place name elements this has inevitably led to speculation about some undiscovered ancient functional connection between the places. where salter refers to a salt–dealer or seller, rather than a maker of the commodity. Salterford was Saltreford in 1086 and means “ford of the salters”. Scholars believe that the name means “the farm of the calves”, from OE calf (genitive plural “calfra” + tūn. The place appears as Calvretone in the Domesday survey of 1086 and as Kalvirton in the Rotuli Hundredorum of 1275. The parish was officially twinned with Longue-Jumelles, in the Loire valley of France, in May 1974. The colliery closed in 1999 and while a small industrial estate provided some local employment, Calverton has taken on the character of a large commuter village. The parliamentary enclosure of 1780 brought agrarian progress to the village, but it was not until the opening of a colliery by the National Coal Board in 1952, that the village began to assume its present identity, with new housing estates and population growth. The parish is bounded on the south by Woodborough, on the east by Arnold, Papplewick and Ravenshead, on the north by Blidworth, and on the east by Oxton and Epperstone.įor most of its existence Calverton was one of the forest villages in that part of Sherwood known as Thorney Wood Chase, with an economy in which handicrafts, like the knitting of stockings, will have assumed a more than usual rural importance. About two miles to the north of the village is the site of the deserted settlement of Salterford. The 2001 census found 6,870 inhabitants in 2,758 households. Calverton is a Nottinghamshire parish, of some 3,300 acres, about seven miles north-east of Nottingham, situated, like nearby Woodborough, and Lambley, on a small tributary of the Dover Beck.
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