Monument record 726/19 - Roman building

{1}Excavation 1954 uncovered SW corner of a late 3rd century timber building, a possible house measuring 13x7m, which had at some point been rebuilt on is eastern side.

{4}In the early fourth century AD a pair of rectangular timber buildings were erected but soon replaced by a stone founded building, which continued into the late fourth century. Both phases appear to have been reasonably substantial houses of modest pretensions set back some 60m from the Kings Sutton road.

(Ref 3.4)Small quantities of pieces of worked but unfinished antler objects and off cuts were recorded at the Sponne School 1954 excavations. This suggests that they may have been part of a wider trade in the production of goods from secondary animal products.

{5}The building is represented by a pair of beam slots in Quadrants 5 and 7, a posthole 300mm in diameter survived in its SW corner.

Alexander J., 1954, Towcester Grammar School Site, 1954 (Slides). SNN111532.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.153/Site 3 (checked) (Series). SNN77382.

<3> Burnham B.C.; Wacher J., 1990, The 'Small Towns' of Roman Britain, 152-8+160 (Book). SNN60720.

<4> Taylor J.; Foard G.; Laughton J.; Steadman S.; Ballinger J., 2002, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Towcester, Section 3.3 and 3.4 (Report). SNN103132.

<5> Brown A.E.; Alexander J.A., 1982, Excavations at Towcester 1954: The Grammar School Site, p.29 (checked) (Article). SNN102436.

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