Monument record 726/16 - Possible Roman Cemetery south of walled area

{1} Hypothesis of large scale Roman cemetery disproven. Burials appear to represent a small family-type group of burials.

{2} More reliably recorded evidence for burial comes from sites either side of Watling Street to the south of the Roman defences. 28 inhumations and 1 unurned cremation were recorded in evaluations to the south of Richmond Road. The majority of these were located in separate plots some 30m south of the defences and 60m back from the line of Watling Street. Again it is debatable as to whether this group, scattered and associated with a number of separate bounded plots as it is, can be considered a cemetery in the formal sense.

Soden, I, 1997, Interim report on an archaeological evaluation off Water Lane and Richmond Road, Towcester, Trial Excavation - Stage 2 (Report). SNN111169.

Woodfield C., 1998 (circa), Water Lane, Towcester, 1998: Catalogue of Illustrated Late Iron Age and Roman Pottery, (unchecked) (Report). SNN106200.

<2> Taylor J.; Foard G.; Laughton J.; Steadman S.; Ballinger J., 2002, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Towcester, Section 3.5 (Report). SNN103132.

<3> CHAPMAN A., 1998-9, Towcester, Water Lane, (unchecked) (Note). SNN104049.

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