SNN104558 - Excavations at Towcester, Northamptonshire: the Alchester Road Suburb

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Type	Article
Title	Excavations at Towcester, Northamptonshire: the Alchester Road Suburb
Author/Originator	Brown AE, Woodfield C
Date/Year	1983

Abstract/Summary

From 1967 to 1978 a series of three separate rescue excavations and observations was conducted on an area of some 5.7ha south west of the defended area of Roman Towcester.

External Links (2)

https://doi.org/10.5284/1083132 (Link to article on ADS)
https://doi.org/10.5284/1083138 (Link to microfiche on ADS)

Description

Location

NCC Archives Service, Heritage Team SMR Library

Referenced Monuments (13)

725/1 Alchester Road (Margery Route 160a) (Monument)
726/2 Alchester Road Suburb (Monument)
726/12/0 Finds possibly associated with a cemetery or temple (Monument)
726 Lactodorum (Monument)
725/1/3 Length of Alchester Road exposed, south-west of Towcester (Monument)
726/32 Possible 4th century cemetery (Monument)
726/10 Possible Roman inhumation (Monument)
726/0/12 Possible Towcester to Fleet Marston road (Monument)
1157/1 Probable Romano-British Road Route to Fleet Marston, Alchester Road Suburb (Monument)
726/0/19 Roman coin hoard (Monument)
726/0/66 Roman pottery kiln, Alchester Road Suburb (Monument)
726/12 Site of a possible Roman temple (Monument)
726/0/35 Unstratified Roman brooch, Sandyhome Road (Find Spot)

Referenced Events (7)

ENN5726 1-3 Link Way, 1966-7 (Finds) (Ref: 6948056)
ENN5680 Abbey Homesteads, Towcester, 1974-6 (Excavation) (Ref: 6948010)
ENN18617 Alchester Road Excavations, 1967-78 (Watching brief) (Ref: 6948188)
ENN5690 Alchester Road, 1967 (Excavation) (Ref: 6948019/ 6947002)
ENN5735 Sandyhome Road, 1966 (Finds) (Ref: 6948062)
ENN5770 Sandyhome Road, 1966 (Observation) (Ref: 6948097)
ENN111841 Silverstone Brook Flood Alleviation, 1978 (Rescue excavation)

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