Monument record 726/0/71 - Possible inhumation, undated

{1}Series of finds since the 19th Century in the area of the former brewery, coins of mostly 3/4th Century AD. Human bones and pottery also recovered.

{4}Four burials found 1939 on site of old brewery, the skeletons have been attributed both to the Roman and Civil War period, actual dating of remains unclear.

{5}The discovery and intermittent recording of skeletons alongside the modern Brackley Road in the early part of the twentieth century would seem to indicate the presence of a possible cemetery outside the town to the west. Little opportunity has arisen, however, to check this area in recent years under modern excavation conditions and so again the location and extent of any such locus is uncertain.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.156/Site 3 (checked) (Series). SNN77382.

<2> Northampton Museum Records, (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN126.

<3> 1987, British Archaeological Reports (BAR 169), p.133-4 (unchecked) (Series). SNN11534.

<4> 1940, Kelly's Directory (1940), (unchecked) (Trade Directory). SNN47488.

<5> Taylor J.; Foard G.; Laughton J.; Steadman S.; Ballinger J., 2002, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Towcester, Section 3.5.2 (unchecked) (Report). SNN103132.

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Dec 8 2010 12:23PM