Find Spot record 3498/0/0 - Iron Age & Romano-British Find Scatter

1st to 4th century Romano British pottery and a limestone scatter with roof and flue tiles noted over an area of about 5 hectares. Excavations in 1961-2 and 1964 showed enough evidence pointing to a possible Roman villa.

{3} Finds include worked flints, animal bones, late Iron Age pottery, Roman pottery and coins of the 1st to 4th centuries, bone objects, a bronze buckle and bell, iron nails, an iron chain, a glass bead and querns. Roman roof and flue tiles and a scatter of limestone have also been recorded.

{5} Iron Age and Romano-British pottery sherds from the field to the east.

{7} The bone objects included a spindle whorl; the querns were of both the saddle and rotary kind; the coins included examples of Claudius I, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Julia Domna, Gallienus, and the house of Constantine.

{10} Fieldwalking in 1957. Surface scatter over whole area

{12} SP 820581 Oxpath, Brafield: A considerable quantity of 1st-4th century RB pottery and a limestone scatter with roof and flue tiles, noted over an area of about 5 hectares. Excavations 1961-2 and 1964 showed a flint wall foundation overlying 3rd-4thc ditches containing pottery coal, charcoal and iron slag. Two small clay-lined bowl-shaped hearths, or possibly reheating furnaces for iron, were found,also two pits with possible kiln waste and a length of iron chain. Surface finds include worked flints, animal bones, quernstones, iron slag, nails, iron key, fragment of a bronze bell and a glass bead; also seven Ro. coins. Finds in Northampton Museum.

{13} R. Hollowell (Northampton Mus.) confirmed area and finds.

{14} NH 18 Listed as the possible site of a Roman villa.

<1> Northampton Museum Topographical Index, Site List (unchecked) (Index). SNN1470.

<2> Northampton Museum Records, Report No.11/64 (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN126.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.7 site 21 (checked) (Series). SNN77380.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP85NW29 (unchecked) (Index). SNN443.

<5> N.MUS NOTEBOOK VERTICAL SECTION & NOTES, (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN43842.

<7> HOLLOWELL R., 1971, Aerial Photography and Fieldwork in the Upper Nene Valley, 6/4 site 17 (checked) (Journal). SNN106546.

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

<9> 1970, CBA GROUP 9 NEWSLETTER, 1/9-10 (unchecked) (Newsletter). SNN58835.

<10> 25" Maps Transcribed From Hollowell Original, (unchecked) (Map). SNN44007.

<11> HAWKES, FINDS REPORT, (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN58392.

<12> Moore W.R.G., 1968, Roman Settlement in the Upper and Middle Nene Valley, Page 47 (Uncertain). SNN15188.

<13> Seaman, B H, 1970, Field Investigator's Comments, 8-SEP-70 (Notes). SNN111541.

<14> Scott, E., 1993, A gazetteer of Roman villas in Britain, P. 141 (Monograph). SNN110345.

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