More information : [Area approximately SE 93932279] The terminal point of Ermine Street [RR2d] on the Humber is not known with certainty. The silted up inlet, possibly of a ferry harbour, called by earlier writers "Flashmire", and published as such on 1st Edition 1" map of 1824 [name very approximately SE 93902282] is perhaps the site of the Roman harbour. That there was a ferry crossing to the north shore at Brough is undisputed and, during the dry summer of 1826, the remains of a raised causeway, or jetty, were seen extending into the lowered level of the river in that direction. [See SE 92 NW 7 and 10 for extensive R.B. occupation.] (1-3)
Nothing of interest was seen at the siting of authy 1. The O.S. have for some time published the name 'Flashmire' at SE 94802163, a point almost surely on the foreshore before flood banking of the Humber. Mr. H. Brumby of Winteringham recalls a large platform and spread mound here (overlooking a natural hollow) but now ploughed away. He, and other locals, consider this to have been the original haven and ferry terminal. (4) |