Monument record 726/0/102 - Roman finds

Casual finds from Towcester

{1}Excavations show Towcester as an open settlement in C1-2 AD on Watling Street;in the late 2nd century it was ditched and walled and reduced in area; it was deserted after the late 4th century AD;{3} See OS map diagram; {6} Various finds and features not indexed in detail; {1} Work by the Upper Nene Archaeological Society; 1-3 Link Way/ Bickerstaffes; 1966; {14} Finds all unlocated; including a hippo sandal; a bronze hand from a statue; an alabaster bottle (in Northampton Museum); 2 small silver axes (private collection); stone female funerary head (B. Museum?) and a considerable amount of pottery (in the Ashmolean museum); other stuff is in private hands; {1} The Lactodorum recorded in the Antonine Itinerary is identified with Towcester;

{11}6 sherds of pottery recovered from a test pit. Likly to residual as post-medeival material also recovered from same context.

{12}Ploughsoil contained Roman pottery and brick/tile.

{8}Several Roman coins found 1987 by D A Snow during the construction of the new bypass

Sesterius of Marcus Aurelius BMC 1398, found July 1988 by W J Jones in topsoil from the site of a new building (Towcester Building Supplies Ltd) by the new A5/A43 roundabout.

{15} An unknown quantity of Roman pottery was found during the removal of a brick floor in an outhouse at 223 Watling Street. It was found in disturbed ground beneath the floor and had been thrown into a skip. Inspection of the site discovered no new finds and the site was considered to be too disturbed to be of any further archaeological value. Pottery included Samian (one had a stamp of Niceph - Nicerphor of Lezoux c 40-170 AD), black burnished ware, amphorae and Northampton ware.

Kenyon, DR, 1997, Towcester Baptist Church, 38-40 Watling Street, Towcester: Archaeological Evaluation (Report). SNN40020.

<1> PLANS; MISC., (unchecked) (Plan). SNN57326.

<1> Ryland, W, Adkins, D, and Serjeantson, R M, 1902, The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Northamptonshire, p.184 (unchecked) (Series). SNN100368.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP46NE1 (checked) (Index). SNN443.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP64NE1 (checked) (Index). SNN443.

<2> Brown, A.E. (Ed.), 1967, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1966/67 (Roman), p.19 (unchecked) (Article). SNN58197.

<2> Green, M, 1976, A corpus of religious material from the civilian areas of Roman Britain, p.112 (unchecked) (Series). SNN7045.

<3> Northampton Museum Records, (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN126.

<4> SUPPLEMENTARY FILE, (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN51916.

<6> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1978, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1977, 13/183 (Journal). SNN2192.

<8> Musgrave E.C.; Tingle M. (editors), 1991, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1990, p111-12 (Article). SNN100325.

<12> Meadows I., 1997, Interim Report on An Archaeological Evaluation Off Water Lane and Richmond Road, Towcester: Trial Excavation- Stage 3, (unchecked) (Report). SNN45795.

<13> 1953, The Archaeological Journal (110), 212 (Journal). SNN59424.

<14> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 154/ Site 3 (Series). SNN77380.

<15> Woodfield, C., 1997, Material From 223 Watling Street, Towcester, Retrieved Spring 1997 (Report). SNN108736.

<16> Woodfield C., 1998 (circa), Water Lane, Towcester, 1998: Catalogue of Illustrated Late Iron Age and Roman Pottery, (unchecked) (Report). SNN106200.

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Feb 14 2024 12:31PM