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Harpole - The landscape of a Roman villa at Panattoni Park, Northamptonshire (Paperback)
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Harpole - The landscape of a Roman villa at Panattoni Park, Northamptonshire (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Archaeology Monograph, 34
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Excavations at Panattoni Park, at Harpole within the Nene Valley
west of Northampton, uncovered part of a Roman villa and evidence
for preceding prehistoric and early Roman settlement. The earliest
evidence was a Mesolithic flint-knapping site. During the early
Iron Age or at the start of the middle Iron Age, a pit alignment
was constructed running down the valley side. A middle Iron Age
settlement of at least seven roundhouses lay 450m to the east of
the pit alignment. It is likely that both the boundary and the
settlement were associated with cattle grazing on the valley floor,
and the settlement may have been seasonally occupied. An enclosure
complex was constructed against the pit alignment during the late
Iron Age and occupied until c AD 50/70, after which there was an
apparent hiatus of about a century before the establishment of the
villa during the mid-2nd century. The villa was first discovered in
the 1840s when a mosaic was accidentally uncovered. It was believed
to have been largely destroyed during widening of the adjacent
A4500 road in 1966 when excavation of only a small area was
possible. However, the new excavation has demonstrated the survival
of part of the main villa complex, including a substantial aisled
building that may have formed the southern range. An extensive part
of the agricultural landscape surrounding the villa was
investigated, including an area devoted to malting and an enclosure
complex used as a stockyard for processing livestock. A further
notable find was a small hoard of mower's tools, perhaps the
toolkit of an individual agricultural worker. A building
interpreted as a temple-mausoleum of Romano-Celtic form situated
beside a spring channel was also investigated. Pollen from the
channel indicating the presence of a walnut grove may be the
earliest definite evidence for the cultivation of walnut trees in
Britain.
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