Monument record 454 - Romano-British Settlement, south of Hill Farm

A very large quantity of Roman pottery, mostly grey ware but including samian, mortarium sherds and colour-coated wares, a bronze coin, fragments of quernstones and a dense scatter of stone were found in 1976-78 on a site where a pottery scatter had been previously recorded. Interpreted as the possible site of a Roman villa.

{1} Scatter of Roman pottery at SP 559598.

{2} A few hundred Roman sherds, mostly grey ware but including samian, mortarium, and colour-coated wares, a bronze coin probably 2nd century, fragments of quernstones of grit and a stone scatter found in this area c 1976-8 at SP 55895977.

{3} Roman bronze coin, Constantinian (341-6), found October 1981

{5} A very large quantity of Roman pottery, mostly grey ware but including samian, mortarium sherds and colour-coated wares, a bronze coin, fragments of quernstones and a dense scatter of stone were found in 19768 on a site where a pottery scatter had previously been recorded.

{7} NH 8 Listed as the possible site of a Roman villa.

<1> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1977, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1976, 211 (Report). SNN723.

<2> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1979, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1978, 14/105 (checked) (Article). SNN45225.

<3> Brown A.E.(ed), 1982, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1981, 17/100 Badby (checked) (Journal). SNN100413.

<4> Orr C., 1979, Oral Report to SMR, (checked) (Oral Report). SNN104965.

<5> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1984, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 203/Site 10 (Series). SNN77384.

<6> WHITWELL J.B., 1982, The Coritani: Some Aspects of the Iron Age Tribe and the Roman Civitas, 188 (Monograph). SNN58533.

<7> Scott, E., 1993, A gazetteer of Roman villas in Britain, p. 140, NH 8 (Monograph). SNN110345.

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