Monument Type(s):

• TOWN (Roman - 43 AD to 410 AD)

Summary

An insula of the Roman town, containing an aisled building and possible bath house.

Related records

Associated Finds: None recorded

Associated Events: None recorded

Description

CMHTS Comment:- A complex area defined by the north-south road and the eastern defences . It is quartered by an east-west road running along the crest of the Bell Brook Valley which mostly coincides with the line of the suggested canabae defences [<2>]. Insula 16 lies in the south-west quadrant; the other insulae are unnumbered. INSULA 16 (SW): Cropmarks clearly show a number of buildings in stone, mostly arranged at the edge of the block. They include on the west side a parallel range of rectilinear rooms with a ???? [illeg] joining corridor and to the east of it, a possible baths house. On the north there is a winged corridor house and on the south an L-shaped house. A simple rectangular house is on the east side. (SE): Three buildings lie on the west side, facing Insula 16. From north to south they are a simple rectangular building with an internal aisle - loading bay at the west end, a double courtyard house with attached baths to the east, and an elongated courtyard house. To the west of the latter are a simple corridor house and broad rectangular house divided into 3 longitudinally and with rooms. The aqueduct runs across both of these 2 quadrants, appearing as an east-west and then a NE-SW line. The elongated courtyard house shows evidence of hypocausts [<3>]. This hypocausted building is almost certainly that excavated in 1701 (SA 06431) (NW): All the stone buildings in this sector lie south of the Bell Brook. They comprise a winged corridor villa (with an eastern apse) on the south road, a rectilinear building lying east-west on the west road and a rectilinear building lying parallel to the Bell Brook (NW-SE). Further along the same bank of the stream are some pits which might be post-hole buildings. On the north of the Bell Brook there is little evidence of building, but clusters of dense pits or post-holes might suggest buildings here. A minor east-west track is also visible. (NE) Nothing really visible other than a possible post-hole building south of the Bell Brook and a minor trackway to the north <1>

Sources referred to in [<1>] <2>,<3>

CMHTS Report <4>

Photographed during aerial survey in 2010. A possible linear cropmark was identified. <5>

Significant cropmark evidence related to this area was recorded during aerial survey in the dry hot summer of 2018, including of the aisled building located at SJ 56676 09058. See White and Barker, 2002: Wroxeter - Life and Death of a Roman City, illus 12. <6><6a>-<13>

Outline transcription of aisled building, based on <6>-<13>. <14>

Sources

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