Monument record 1641/4/2 - Defensive Wall of Romano-British Town (South Side)

{1} To the south-west the survey area was extended across a plough-flattened length of the defences. Here, the location of the town wall is indicated by a strong linear negative anomaly, and similarly so along the southern edge of the town, at the southern limit of the survey area.
Earth resistance survey work was carried out to complement the results of the magnetometer survey on the area of the walled town. Of particular interest was the identification of the town wall (Fig 5). The eastern half of the southern wall was successfully located as a linear high-resistance anomaly, and a more massive high resistance anomaly disrupted the wall line to the west, at the point where the north-south road meets the defences. However, this anomaly might be interpreted as the disruption caused by early excavations searching for a gateway, rather than the
survival of a gate itself.

<1> Butler A.; Meadows I.; Fisher I., 2010, Archaeological Geophysical Survey at Chester Farm, Irchester, Northamptonshire, p.6+10 Fig.4+5 (checked) (Report). SNN107215.

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