Iron Age Saltworking on the Yorkshire Coast at Street House, Loftus, Cleveland

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This report presents the first evidence for structures associated with saltworking in Yorkshire. The report concerns an Iron Age settlement at Street House that commences in the Later Iron Age and continues into the second century ad. One interesting feature is how the site evolved to incorporate saltworking at an altitude of 170 metres. The parallels for saltworking in Fenland and the Dorset coast are discussed in terms of materials, methods and technology. One consequence of this is the question of how widely was the product distributed if briquetage is found up to 60 km inland from the Yorkshire coast at Rock Castle, Gilling.