Monument record 894/1 - Possible Roman Villa North West of Bannaventa

Site of a possible Roman villa immediately N.N.E. of Norton Lode Farm on glacial sands and gravels at 127 m. above OD. Air photographs (in NMR) show rather indistinctly a series of parallel, straight parchmarks; the southernmost of these has a small two-roomed buildings at its W. end. To the S. are two rectangular features linked by what is perhaps a length of walling. On the ground is a scatter of mainly 4th-century pottery with a few pieces of tile.

{1} Roman Villa (?) (SP 605649), immediately N.N.E. of Norton Lode Farm on glacial sands and gravels at 127 m. above OD. Air photographs (in NMR) show rather indistinctly a series of parallel, straight parchmarks; the southernmost of these has a small two-roomed buildings at its W. end. To the S. are two rectangular features linked by what is perhaps a length of walling. On the ground is a scatter of mainly 4th-century pottery with a few pieces of tile.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 153/Site 8 (Series). SNN77381.

<2> RCHME, Undated, RCHME Inventory: Northamptonshire II (Central), 889673 (Archive). SNN112900.

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