Brown. and Alexander, J. A. (1982). Excavations at Towcester 1954 - the Grammar School site. Northamptonshire Archaeology 17. Vol 17, pp. 24-59. https://doi.org/10.5284/1083121. Cite this via datacite
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Excavations at Towcester 1954 - the Grammar School site | ||||
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Northamptonshire Archaeology 17 | ||||
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24 - 59 | ||||
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Rescue excavations in 1954 on a site straddling the NW defences of Towcester uncovered levels yielding material of the late1st/earlier 2nd centuries AD. They were succeeded by timber buildings. These were demolished when the defences were constructed across them c.AD 175. The defences were formidable, consisting of a wall with contemporary backing bank, a ditch 23m wide but only 1.5m deep, and a zone of dumped clay outside it. No further occupation took place outside the defences, and within them there was no evidence for occupation again until c.300AD, after which a pair of timber buildings was put up, to be succeeded on the same site by a stone building which lasted into probably the early 5th century. The sites then lay deserted until AD917 when the Roman defences were refurbished for the purposes of the Anglo-Saxon burh; the archaeological evidence for this consisted of a heightening of the Roman town bank and possibly a cleaning out of the defensive ditch. No Anglo-Saxon structures were uncovered, but there was evidence for a building of the 12th century set into the burh rampart. The line of the defences was used again by the Royalists in 1643 when a narrower ditch was dug with an earth rampart revetted with stone behind. This was pushed into the defensive ditch when the Royalists abandoned Towcester in 1644. Subsequent activity on the site involved the robbing of the Roman walls and the digging of pits. Notable finds were a piece of Roman military equipment and a 15th-century lead pilgrim badge with a figure of Pieta. | ||||
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