Hostname: page-component-7479d7b7d-8zxtt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-13T07:32:55.046Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

VIII.—An Account of Roman Remains found at Duston in Northamptonshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

Samuel Sharp
Get access

Extract

In the county of Northampton there are many sites which afford evidence of occupation by the Romans, either for military or domestic purposes.

Not only have we in the eastern extremity of the county, at Castor and in the neighbourhood, the remains of the city and great pottery works of Durobrivæ, with, in Huntingdonshire, the nearly-adjacent camp of Chesterton, and in the western portion of the county, near Daventry, the famous military station of Burrow Hill; but, besides these, along the valley of the Nen River and further westward, minor military stations are to be traced, which, occurring at short intervals, represent (as it has been suggested) a line of frontier and of military defence which was established by Ostorius Scapula, the Roman general in Britain under Claudius, and which extended from the Wash (Metaris Æstuarium) to the Bristol Channel.

Type
Research Article
Information
Archaeologia , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , 1871 , pp. 118 - 130
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1871

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 118 note a See Lecture by the Rev. J. N. Simpkinson, delivered at Northampton in March 1862.

page 119 note a See Transactions of the Associated Architectural, &c. Societies, v. 97.

page 128 note a I have described the following articles as of Upchurch and Salopian ware, upon probability only.

page 129 note a The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon, p. 340.

page 129 note b This vessel was of the same type as the cup with octagonal brim figured in Archæologia, xvi. 137, and exhibited (for the second time) before the Society of Antiquaries on May 19th, 1870. Pewter vessels of the same type from the Fens of Cambridgeshire, were also exhibited on Jan. 13th in the same year.