Monument record 1641/9/1 - Probable Romano-British Temple Building

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

{2} Another example, comprising a square building with a circular structure immediately to the north-east, lies in the north-western quarter of the town (Fig 4, TC2). This shrine is also about 11m square and although a square cella is not clearly defined, short lengths of anomaly suggestive of masonry could represent elements of a partially robbed inner
wall. The outer wall of the putative ambulatory was also uneven and this may represent either collapsed masonry or the presence of external buttresses. The association of the square shrine buildings with circular structures that may also have functioned as shrines is striking, and it is possible that each pair represent discrete religious foci, although in neither case was an enclosing temenos boundary recognised.

<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.10 Fig.4 (checked) (Report). SNN107215.

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Sep 12 2014 11:43AM