More information : [SP 752961] Roman Building [St] (1)
Glooston 752 959.
Casual discoveries by Miss R. Cramp led to a small amount of digging in a field behind her father's farm. The site is in a small valley, the east side of which rises steeply. The discoveries have been made at the top of the declivity at the south end of a hollow on the west bank of the stream. A trial trench by Mr. Cottrill on 9th Sept. 1946 produced building debris, box-tile fragments and plaster. A coin of Licinius is said to have been found on the site. Notes and photographs in Museum, [Leicester] also cutting from Northants Evening Telegraph, 16th. August 47. (2)
'Tesserae and other structural material indicate a house at Glooston'.... (3)
'Indications of a house - flue tiles, stone slates, tesserae and walling - have been found at Ivy House Farm, Glooston'...... (4)
[SP 7518 9604] Site of Roman Villa. Pottery, tesserae, coins, foundations etc. (5)
[SP 75279603] Sited from sketch-plans in Museum. The siting previously given [Authy 4] was an indication of the field. The Museum has a number of photographs of the site, a rough sketch plan showing lengths of walling including two wall-junctions and descriptive MSS by Mr. F. Cottrill. The evidence indicates a villa. (6)
The site indicated falls at the edge of the flood bank of a stream, in a field, formerly rig and furrow, now a pasture. Apart from one or two small fragments of tile no evidence of the site is now visible. Miss Rosemary Cramp, is now a Lecturer in Archaeology at Durham University, and is reported locally to have made further excavations at the site but no reply was received to a letter of enquiry. In Market Harborough Museum is a collection of combed-tile fragments, plaster, tesserae and fragments of box-tile from this site, presented by Miss Cramp. (7)
Site falls under permanent pasture; no new evidence was collected during investigation. (8)
LE 37 Listed as the possible site of a Roman villa. (9) |