Monument record 1641/0/89 - Romano-British Building (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Crop/soilmark: Good quality photography

{2) 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).
In addition, several of the more complex structures in the centre of the town contain positive anomalies out of proportion to the negative signatures from the walls. This can be interpreted as evidence for possible hypocaust-heated floors in at least one of the two or three rooms (Fig 4, B2-B4).

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

<2> Butler A.; Meadows I.; Fisher I., 2010, Archaeological Geophysical Survey at Chester Farm, Irchester, Northamptonshire, p.9+Fig.4+5 (checked) (Report). SNN107215.

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Sep 12 2014 2:13PM