Monument record 726/12/0 - Finds possibly associated with a cemetery or temple

{1} A silver votive axe and a silver spoon were both found in 1966-7 in the area of 1-3 Link Way. This general area has also produced another silver axe, a silver openwork disc brooch, a silver ring, 2 silver coins, a 1st century bronze brooch and a quantitiy of 2nd century Samian including an unusual East Gaulish plate or stand. This combination fo finds may just be coincidence but the discovery of human bones in the area hints at the presence of a cemetery or temple.

{2} {1} Finds; pottery ranging in date from Antonine period to mid 4th, opus signinum and silver spoon; info C Woodfield;

<1> Brown AE, Woodfield C, 1983, Excavations at Towcester, Northamptonshire: the Alchester Road Suburb, 18/130-131 (checked) (Article). SNN104558.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.154/Site 3 (checked) (Series). SNN77382.

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