SNN60159 - The Defences of Towcester, Northamptonshire

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Type Article
Title The Defences of Towcester, Northamptonshire
Author/Originator
Date/Year 1992

Abstract/Summary

Fragmentary traces of earlier occupation from the conquest to the Antonine periods were swept away when Towcester was defended by a contemporary stone wall and wide bank of c170AD.

External Links (2)

Description

Location

WNC Archives and Heritage Service SMR Library

Referenced Monuments (28)

  • Bury Mount (Monument)
  • Civil War Defences (Monument)
  • Civil War Defences (Monument)
  • Civil war defensive ditch (Monument)
  • Early Roman defensive bank (Monument)
  • Early Roman timber buildings (Monument)
  • Early Saxon finds (Monument)
  • Inhumations, likely Roman (Monument)
  • Late Iron Age/ early Roman settlement features (Monument)
  • Late Saxon defensive ditch (Monument)
  • Medieval Defences (Monument)
  • Medieval Defences and Drainage Ditches (Monument)
  • Possible Civil War defensive features (Monument)
  • Possible Medieval/Post Medieval Defensive Ditch & Bank (Monument)
  • Possible Roman Temple, east of Watling Street (Monument)
  • Possible Romano-British Ditch (Monument)
  • Roman Defences (Monument)
  • Roman Defences Adjacent Bury Mount (Monument)
  • Roman Defences at Lactodorum: north-west corner (Monument)
  • Roman Defensive Ditch (Monument)
  • Roman Town defences: NE corner (Monument)
  • Romano-British Town Defences (Monument)
  • Saxon to medieval town defences (Monument)
  • Towcester Roman Town Defences (Monument)
  • Town wall foundation trench (Monument)
  • Uncertain Roman features (Monument)
  • Undated ditch, possibly Roman (Monument)
  • Unstratified Prehistoric Flints (Find Spot)

Referenced Events (9)

  • Bury Mount, 1984 (Excavation) (Ref: 6948058)
  • Cinema site, Towcester 1984 (Trial trench) (Ref: 6948060)
  • GPO Telephone Exchange, 1967 (Watching brief) (Ref: 6948125)
  • Texaco Filling Station, 1982 (Observation)
  • TMT Settling tank, 1976 (Observation)
  • Towcester Grammar School Site, 1954 (Excavation) (Ref: 6948043)
  • Towcester Mill and Trading (TMT) Co., 1984 (Trial trench)
  • Watching Brief, 1983 (Ref: 6948060)
  • Water Lane/Silverstone Brook Crossing 1977/78 (Ref: 6948064)

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Jan 12 2026 12:08PM

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