Monument record 3957/0/17 - Romano-British Pits

{26} Finds made during drainage work at north end of Bath Rd & on Co-Op building estate to north of Clover Hill; many pot sherds revealed especially on lower & east part of estate & north part of Bath Rd ie. Stoneylands & Beckhead furlongs; in drainage works "….large quantities of fragments of pottery were undoubtedly Romano-British & remains of some shoes & bones & bronze spoon & bronze fragments & over 40 coins of C1st-C4th AD;,

{27}Recent discoveries at Kettering; up to 1904 pottery finds "....extremely fragmentary...."; only 2 or 3 complete vessels; pits revealed; some V-shaped & 5ft deep & others flat-bottomed & shallow; extending over area of c.15 acres near head of Beck Gutter;

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.102 (part checked) (Series). SNN77380.

<3> Proceedings of The Society of Antiquaries, 493-501 (Uncertain). SNN55356.

<4> Kettering Museum Records, (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN28658.

<26> BULL F.W., 1908, HISTORY OF KETTERING, (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN44436.

<27> BULL F.W., KETTERING LEADER, (unchecked) (Article). SNN44350.

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