Monument record 1641/0/79 - Probable Romano-British Buildings

Crop/soilmark: Good quality photography

{1} Roman buildings (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation). Crop/soilmark: Good quality photography.

{2} The road system comprises mainly sinuous roads, at least partly as a result of the presence of a pre-existing road network. However, to the immediate north-west of the public open space, P, two linear minor roads define the northern and western sides of a rectangular plot, c55m long by c35m wide, which sits in the angle of the roads leading
to the putative western and southern gateways. This plot is therefore likely to be a creation within the plan of the walled town, and it appears to contain a row of five or six stone buildings.
The walls of a building lying on the western side of the main street in the northern part of the town exhibit a particularly intense positive magnetic signature (Fig 4, B1). It is probable that this represents a building which burnt down, with the scorching of its stone walls producing the particularly strong magnetic enhancement. A few other walls,
including a small rectangular structure in a row of buildings to the west of the main street and two longer lengths of boundary wall in the northern part of the town, appear to have similar magnetic enhancement (Fig 4, fired/burnt).

<1> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, Used with NMR & CUCAP collections (Photographs). SNN104822.

<2> Butler A.; Meadows I.; Fisher I., 2010, Archaeological Geophysical Survey at Chester Farm, Irchester, Northamptonshire, p.8+Fig.4 (checked) (Report). SNN107215.

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Sep 11 2014 6:23PM