ENN4790 - Bannaventa, 1955 (Excavation)

{2} A trial excavation in the field W. of Watling Street, in 1955, probably just inside the town defences (about SP 612648), revealed rubbish pits containing 1st and 2nd-century material. Finds from this excavation (in NM) include a large Nene Valley type beaker decorated with three horizontal bands of barbotine scroll-work, a tall folded beaker, a large painted pot ornamented with concentric circles of latticework, part of a glass bowl, fragments of a black samian pot with an applied relief of the chariot of Apollo and the letters PAT[ERNAS] (Ant.J., 27 (1957), 40), and a small bowl of imitation samian, form 29, decorated with white slip spots. All are of 2nd-century date. In NM there is also a small grey-ware pot which contained a hoard of antoniniani.