Monument record 2404/0/3 - Cropmarks of possible Roman building and associated Roman find scatter

Sites of Roman buildings close to the parish boundary with Pilton on the upper slopes of the Lyveden valley on Boulder Clay at 250 ft above OD. A dense scatter of Roman pottery, including samian, is associated with at least five clearly defined areas of limestone rubble, all probably buildings. Interpreted as the possible site of a Roman villa.

{1} Dark area with pebbles and limestone on a watershed. Almost circular area of stone surrounded by a dark ditch and a few other stone patches. Samian and colour-coated sherds.

NA Vol 10 p.162. Two new Roman sites were identified in 1974, including one at TL001863.

{3} Close to the parish boundary with Pilton on the upper slopes of the Lyveden Valley on Boulder Clay at 250 ft. above OD. A dense scatter of Roman pottery, including samian, is associated with at least five clearly defined areas of limestone rubble, all probably buildings. SP000863

{5} Clearly defined building scatter and Romano-British pottery including fragments of cheese presses and Antonine samian.

{6} Fieldwalking; half of flat quernstone; Hadman; TL000862;(1);

{8} NH 108 Listed as the possible site of a Roman villa.

{9} TL 0009 8658 Four small sherds of RB pottery collected by Lyall, now in Westfield Museum, Kettering 1964.

{10} Sherds found in 1964 {9} identified as 4th century.

<1> Hall D.N., 1960-1999, Rockingham Forest Project: Archaeological Sites Recorded by David Hall, Stoke Doyle/Site 2 (Database). SNN102279.

<2> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, Used with NMR & CUCAP collections (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1975, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.89/Site 5 (checked) (Series). SNN77379.

<4> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1973, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1972, 8/17 (Journal). SNN8956.

<5> Brown, A.E. (Ed.), 1972, Archaeology in Northamptonshire, 1971 (Roman), p. 32 (Article). SNN24560.

<6> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1975, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1974, 10/162 (Report). SNN41605.

<7> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1973, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1972, p.17 (unchecked) (Journal). SNN8956.

<8> Scott, E., 1993, A gazetteer of Roman villas in Britain, NH 108/ p. 147 (Monograph). SNN110345.

<9> Northampton Museum Records, Corr 6" (F V Lyall, 1970) (Uncertain). SNN126.

<10> Moore W.R.G., 1968, Roman Settlement in the Upper and Middle Nene Valley, p. 69 (Uncertain). SNN15188.

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