Monument record 670/1 - Roman Pottery Manufacture, Home Field

Romano British pottery kiln found in 1874 in a pasture field. Inside were twenty broken urns. A brooch of silver, bronze and bone was also found in a gravel pit at the south east end of the field about 1/4 mile south-east of Wappenham Church.

{1} Field name: Home Field

{2} Rough Romano-British kiln with twenty broken urns in it and charcoal, iron slag (?); also a brooch of silver, bronze and bone; found in a gravel pit in the south-east end of the Home Field about 1/4 mile south-east of Wappenham Church, by H C Malden in 1874. (A gravel-pit is marked in this position on OS 6" at SP 626 453).

{3} Gravel working in 1874 revealed a Roman kiln containing 20 broken urns. Charcoal, bone, iron slag, a silvered brooch and fragments of bronze were also found.

{4} Features recorded in 1874 during gravel quarrying, in the north west section of the pit. A section drawing shows c.10 possible kilns. Plan.

{5} The old gravel pit is in a permanent pasture field and no recent finds have been recorded.

{6} Sketches of pots and plan of gravel pit, notes on the finds;

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP64NW2 (checked) (Index). SNN443.

<2> Ryland, W, Adkins, D, and Serjeantson, R M, 1902, The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Northamptonshire, p.221 (unchecked) (Series). SNN100368.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.160/Site 2 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77382.

<4> DRYDEN H., DRYDEN MSS, DRAWER 8 (Uncertain). SNN47532.

<5> Seaman, B H, 1970, Field Investigator's Comments, F1 BHS 04-FEB-70 (Notes). SNN111541.

<6> Dryden H.E.L., 1842-1895, Dryden Collection, DR/25/283/18,10,11,20 (Archive). SNN115.

Record last edited

Feb 10 2025 7:16PM