Find Spot record 447/1/0 - Unstratified Medieval to Modern Finds

{1} A metal detector survey of the site of the proposed Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal, where it abuts Watling Street (for 50m from SP 57357245 to SP 57057290). After the completion of a geophysical survey, a fifty metre strip along the Roman road was surveyed, using 50m lines marked at 5m spacings and completing 50m squares. All metal finds were plotted but left in the ground. A similar survey was conducted to the north. The survey of one hectare in the area of the 1947 sectioning of the Roman road yielded a similar number of finds. Five Roman coins (two of silver), a lead weight, an inscribed posy ring, a dress fastener and a schist are now with R.P.S. Clouston and will be deposited with Northampton Museum.

{2} Finds from the northern survey area: a copper alloy dress fastener, a modern alloy clip, a lead weight, a 14th/15th century copper alloy flower-like sexfoil domed mount, and a 19th century iron posy ring. Also recovered was part od a whetstone, of either medieval or Anglo-Saxon date.

<1> Kings RFJ, 1994, Field Survey of a Roman Site at Kilsby, p.179-80 (checked) (Note). SNN45110.

<2> RPS CLOUSTON, 1994, Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal: Archaeological Evaluation (Appendices), Appendix 2 (checked) (Report). SNN70454.

<3> RPS CLOUSTON, 1994, Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal: Archaeological Evaluation, (checked) (Report). SNN106052.

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Dec 24 2014 2:36PM