Monument record 1160/217/1 - St Peter's Street

{1}St Peter's Street runs behind St Peter's Church;

{4}St Peter's Street runs behind St Peter's Church; connects Green Street with Freeschool Lane;St Peter's Street runs behind St Peter's Church;

{5}St Peter's Street; runs behind St Peter's Church; connects Elephant Street to Freeschool Street;

{2}St Peter's Street not named on map; runs directly behind St Peter's Church; runs between Bakewell Street & Freeschool Lane;

{6}15cm road make-up observed above grey loam with occasional charcoal flecks; finds of few oyster shells & bottle glass & post medieval pottery not retained;

{7}Metalling along line of present St Peter's Street; compact mass of ironstone fragments; finds include furnace bottom or forging slag; lead sheet offcut; worked bone spindle whorl & highly polished antler tool probably once spindle & bone skate & other worked bone included three fragments of antler working waste; road was re-metalled at time of rebuilding of street circa 1410-20;

<1> Speed J., 1610, Map of Northamptonshire, (checked) (Map). SNN559.

<2> Noble; Butlin, 1746, Town Map, (checked) (Map). SNN430.

<3> Roper; Cole, 1807, Map of The Town of Northampton, (checked) (Map). SNN621.

<4> Wood; Law, 1847, Town Map of Northampton, (checked) (Map). SNN752.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 1880s, First Edition Ordnance Survey 25 Inch Mapping Series (45.09), (unchecked) (Map). SNN106108.

<6> KIDD, 1994, SMR REPORT FORM, (unchecked) (Report). SNN49433.

<7> Williams J.H., 1979, St Peter's Street, Northampton: Excavations 1973-1976, p.76 (checked) (Report). SNN342.

Record last edited

Sep 2 2014 5:39PM