Monument record 1767 - Romano-British Settlement, Redlands Farm

Extensive area of Roman settlement comprising a villa and its wider hinterland excavated prior to gravel extraction in 1990. The excavation revealed a mill and two rectangular barns set within a system of ditched enclosures and field boundaries. The mill was subsequently converted into a villa with hypocaust and painted wall plaster and later a moasic pavement was constructed.

{7} Most of the faunal remains from Redlands Farm were from animals eaten in antiquity. The most common meat consumed was probably cattle, followed by lamb/mutton and some pork. A tarso-metatarsus of white-tailed eagle, a species extinct in Britain during most of the 20th century may have been a fairly common scavenger in the Roman period. A small dog radius may indicate the inhabitants were fairly wealthy.

<1> Keevill G.D. & Booth, P., 1997, Settlement, sequence and structure: Romano-British stone-built roundhouses at Redlands Farm, Stanwick (Northants), and Alchester (Oxon) (Article). SNN111333.

<2> OXFORD ARCHAEOLOGICAL UNIT, 1992, Redlands Farm, Stanwick: Site Narrative (Report). SNN69021.

<3> OXFORD ARCHAEOLOGICAL UNIT, 1992, Redlands Farm, Stanwick, Northamptonshire: Post-Excavation Assessment (Report). SNN75157.

<4> Keevill G.D., 1996, The reconstruction of the Romano-British villa at Redlands Farm, Northamptonshire (Article). SNN111334.

<5> Biddulph, E, Keevill, GD, & Scott, IR, 2002, Redlands Farm, Stanwick, Northamptonshire: The Roman Evidence, Volume 1: Text (Report). SNN114104.

<6> KeevillG, & Bradley, P, 1994, Redlands Farm, Stanwick, Northamptonshire: Redlands Farm, Stanwick, Northamptonshire: The Prehistoric Evidence: Post-Excavation Project Design (Report). SNN114105.

<7> S J M Davis, 1990, Animal Bones from the Roman Site Redlands Farm, Stanwick, Northamptonshire, 1990 Excavation (Report). SNN117159.

<8> Northamptonshire County Council, 1994, The Northamptonshire National Mapping Programme, SP9670_040 (Digital archive). SNN117168.

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