Monument record 726/3/3 - Inhumations, likely Roman

The discovery of two skeletons in 1976/7 during observation of a flood scheme indicates a possible Roman cemetery associated with the Roman town of Lactodorum.

{1} An area adjacent to the main settling tank of the pumping station was opened up and pumping enabled the north-west and south-west faces to be inspected and cleaned down. An undated ditch running parallel to Watling Street was found, as well as a wide U-shaped pit in which two crania and various disturbed lower limb bones were found- apparently burials in situ of which the contractors excavation had removed the rest of the bodies-laid on an east - west axis.

{2} SP 69564854. Two skeletons noted in 1976/7 during observation of the flood scheme, presumably indicating a cemetery outside the defended area of the town.

<1> Woodfield, C., 1976?, Towcester- Anglian Water Authority Sewer Trench, February to October 1976, p. 3 (Uncertain). SNN51901.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 156/Site 3w (Series). SNN77382.

<3> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1978, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1977, p. 183 (Journal). SNN2192.

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