Monument record 1613/2/3 - Romano-British Pottery Kilns & Associated Settlement Remains

Coney-gree, Rainbows Rood and Ten Yards fields. A concentration of Roman pottery, fire-bars and baked clay kiln lining material found at a probable settlement site. Occupation debris (building stone scatter, wall plaster, roof tiles, probably a few tesserae) as distinct from industrial debris predominates at the latter area. A pit excavated in 1958 contained kiln debris and 1st century pottery as did four further gullies or pits. Roman finds include over thirty coins (1st to 4th century) one of which was a gold aureus of Augustus; bronze brooches, pins and bracelet; a piece of lead and a bead. Other finds are two flint arrowheads (barbed and tanged and leaf-shaped), worked flints, and an Anglo-Saxon disc brooch. Site of an Iron Age settlement indicated by cropmarks of a complex series of enclosures and ditches. Surface finds from the area include Iron Age pottery, some of Hunsbury type, associated with numerous pits. A celtic coin of Cunobelin, Mack type 246 was found at this site. Interpreted as a possible Roman villa. site.

{1} Surface finds include Roman pottery and coins, roof tiles, wall plaster, bronze brooches, bracelets and pins, pieces of lead, spindle whorls, scatters of stone and worked flints.Four pits or gulllies, with kiln bars, kiln lining and 1st century Roman pottery have been excavated.

(2) Roman settlement & kilns; five Roman coins of 1st-4th century AD and 1st-century bronze brooch;

{?} Magnetometer survey showed 13 disturbances most of which were small pits/gullies with kiln debris

{3} A Romano-British brooch was found in September 1982 and loaned to Northampton Museum. Field name: Rainbows Rood

{8} Area SP 812596 (Coney-gree, Rainbows Rood and Ten Yards fields). A concentration of Roman pottery, fire-bars and baked clay kiln lining material found at a probable settlement site at SP 811598 and at SP 812596. Occupation debris (building stone scatter, wall plaster, roof tiles, probably a few tesserae) as distinct from industrial debris predominates at the latter area. A pit excavated in 1958 contained kiln debris and 1st century pottery as did four further gullies or pits. Roman finds include over thirty coins (1st to 4th century) one of which was a gold aureus of Augustus; bronze brooches, pins and bracelet; a piece of lead and a bead. Other finds are two flint arrowheads (barbed and tanged and leaf-shaped), worked flints, and an Anglo-Saxon disc brooch. Air observations by Hollowell have revealed extensive cropmarks.

{10}Collection of 24 Roman coins , nearly all 3-4th century , found August-September 1984. In 1981 a celtic coin of Cunobelin, Mack type 246 was found at this site.

{11} Coins found during metal detecting in January 1982 and seen by Northampton museum. Field name: Rainbows Rood

{19} NH 79 Listed as the possible site of a Roman villa.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.86/Site 14 (checked) (Series). SNN77380.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.199/Site 14 (checked) (Series). SNN77382.

<3> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1983, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1982, p171 Little Houghton (Article). SNN24591.

<4> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1973, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1972, 8/6 (Journal). SNN8956.

<5> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1974, Archaeology In Northamptonshire 1973, 9/91 (Article). SNN9109.

<6> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1975, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1974, 10/155 (unchecked) (Report). SNN41605.

<7> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1976, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1975, 11/192 (unchecked) (Journal). SNN169.

<8> Johnston, D E, 1969, Romano-British pottery kilns near Northampton, p.93-94 (unchecked) (Article). SNN58178.

<9> Brown, A.E. (Ed.), 1967, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1966/67 (Roman), p.14 (unchecked) (Article). SNN58197.

<10> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1976, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1975, 11/192 (Journal). SNN169.

<11> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1983, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1982, p174 Little Houghton (unchecked) (Article). SNN24591.

<12> Dix B.(ed), 1985, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1983-4, p150 Little Houghton (Checked) (Report). SNN100404.

<14> HOLLOWELL R., 1971, Aerial Photography and Fieldwork in the Upper Nene Valley, 6/15/Site 8; P. 14 checked (Journal). SNN106546.

<15> MSS NOTES+PLANS+DRAWINGS, (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN47062.

<16> Musgrave E.C.; Tingle M. (editors), 1991, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1990, p110 Little Houghton (unchecked) (Article). SNN100325.

<17> Moore W.R.G., 1968, Roman Settlement in the Upper and Middle Nene Valley, P. 62 (Uncertain). SNN15188.

<18> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1972, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1971, P. 22 (Journal). SNN59984.

<19> Scott, E., 1993, A gazetteer of Roman villas in Britain, P. 145 (Monograph). SNN110345.

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