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CHER Number:00809
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Roman pottery and tile, Alconbury Weston

Summary - not yet available

Grid Reference:TL 186 775
Parish:Alconbury Weston, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire

Monument Type(s):

Associated Finds:

  • ROOF TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • SHERD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Full description

1. Castor ware, coarse gritted pot, grooved tile, tegulae, oysters in construction trenches; Roman pot, roof tile found on field surface.
See RN 00808 - Roman pottery 00806 - Romano-British settlement 00806a

2. The area is arable and no surface indication of early occupation is visible. The farmer, Mr Chattell, confirmed the find sites of JR Garrood and has personally found RB sherds in these areas. Nothing found during investigation


<1> Garrood, J.R., 1947, Romano-British Settlements at Alconbury Hill, Huntingdonshire. TCHAS 6: 203-8, p. 203 - 8 (Article in serial). SCB14457.

<2> Baird, J., Field Investigator Comments, 22/5/71 (Verbal communication). SCB62256.

Sources and further reading

<1>Article in serial: Garrood, J.R.. 1947. Romano-British Settlements at Alconbury Hill, Huntingdonshire. TCHAS 6: 203-8. p. 203 - 8.
<2>Verbal communication: Baird, J.. Field Investigator Comments. 22/5/71.