A Romano-British Pottery Kiln at Weston Favell, near Northampton

1954 ◽  
Vol 34 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 218-224
Author(s):  
Brian Bunch ◽  
Philip Corder
Keyword(s):  
Raw Material ◽  
The South ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
Education Committee ◽  
Cherry Orchard ◽  
Pottery Kiln ◽  
The Village

The village of Weston Favell is situated on high land to the north of the river Nene, some 2½ miles to the north-east of the centre of Northampton. On the north side of the Wellingborough Road at this point the Northampton Education Committee are erecting the Cherry Orchard School. In April 1953, during the filling in of a disused quarry preparatory to building, one of the writers noticed sherds of Roman pottery in a disturbed patch in the quarry face (Nat. Grid 5237.2819). Further examination disclosed two large burnt stones protruding from it, which proved on excavation to be the cheeks of the stokehole flue of a small pottery kiln.The quarry was some 16 to 18 ft. deep, and had been used to get the local limestone. The field to the south of it shows disturbance of the surface over a considerable area. Overlying the stone hereabouts is an extensive layer of grey clay, which may well have served as the raw material of the potters. It contains pockets of whitish sand similar to that which gives the clay of the local ware its characteristic texture.

On the Chloride Waters of Great Britain

1945 ◽  
Vol 82 (6) ◽  
pp. 267-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
The South ◽  
Very Old ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Exact Position ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Village ◽  
Made In

Formerly there were several surface brine springs in the North-East Coalfield; to-day there are none. From the many accounts of their occurrence nothing has been learned of their exact position, and very little of the composition of their waters. The earliest record, made in 1684, described the Butterby spring (Todd, 1684), and then at various times during the next two centuries brine springs at Framwellgate, Lumley, Birtley, Walker, Wallsend, Hebburn, and Jarrow were noted. In particular the Birtley salt spring is often mentioned, and on the 6-in. Ordnance map, Durham No. 13, 1862 edition, it is sited to the south-east of the village. Although no record has been found there must have been either a brine spring or well at Gateshead, for the name of the present-day suburb, Saltwell, is very old, and brine springs are still active in the coal workings of that area.

Woodeaton

1917 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 98-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. V. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
The South ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Dry Seasons ◽  
The Village

Woodeaton is a small Oxfordshire parish, four miles north-east of the centre of Oxford city and a little west of the wide marshy level of the ‘Plain of Otmoor.’ It stands on a low, detached and rounded hill, 315 feet above sea level, and 120 feet above Otmoor. In old days it must have been difficult of access, for Otmoor spreads away to the east of it; low pastures along the river Cherwell close it in on the north and west, while south-westwards, too, the land is low-lying and marshy. Even to the south-east a marshy hollow separates it from the wooded slopes of Beckley and Elsfield, once part of Shotover Forest. However, the well-known Roman road which connects Dorchester (Oxon.) with Alchester, and which passes along the foot of Shotover, and traverses the village of Beckley and the plain of Otmoor, runs within two miles of Woodeaton; in dry seasons it may have helped those who wished to get to the spot.

Le Câtel de Rozel, Jersey: The Excavations of 1988–90

1992 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 18-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Cunliffe
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Site ◽  
The South ◽  
Narrow Neck ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The Village ◽  
Sea Cliffs

The site of Le Câtel lies in the parish of Trinity in the north-east corner of Jersey, close to the village and harbour of Rozel (figs. 1 and 2). The defensive characteristics of the promontory are best appreciated from the contour plan (fig. 3). The archaeological site is located at the end of a long narrow plateau bounded on the north and east by cliffs plunging steeply to the sea and on the south by a deep valley cut by a stream flowing into Rozel bay. A subsidiary valley bites deeply into the south flank of the promontory leaving only a narrow neck of land, some 200m across, between its head and the sea cliffs on the north. This approach is barred by a massive earthwork which gives the site its name—Le Câtel.

scholarly journals Kos Astypalaia

1898 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 95-100
Author(s):  
Duncan Mackenzie
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Mountain Region ◽  
The South ◽  
North West ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
The Village

From the modern town of Kos, on the site of the ancient capital at the north-east extremity of the island, to the village of Kephalos at the southwest end is a ride of eight hours.The village stands on a chalky plateau which beyond the isthmus marks the beginning of the mountain district of south-west Kos. This in turn is a repetition on a smaller scale of the mountain region, at the other end of the island, which forms the lofty termination to the long central tableland. The highest points of the mountain district are towards the south-east where the fall to the sea is very rapid. The highest neighbouring peak, Mount Ziní, is about an hour distant from the village in a south-easterly direction, while all that lies to the north-west of the main range is high pastoral country with many torrent beds.

scholarly journals IV.—The Geology of the Dolgelley Gold-belt, North Wales

1910 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 159-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur R. Andrew
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Ordnance Survey ◽  
Gold Mines ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
North Wales ◽  
The Town ◽  
Gold Bearing

The town of Dolgelley lies slightly outside the main tract of gold-bearing country of Merionethshire, but it forms a convenient headquarters from which to visit the various gold-mines and auriferous lodes. The Dolgelley Gold-belt lies within the area covered by the quarter-sheets 27 N.E., 27 S.E., 32 S.E., 33 N.W., 33 N.E., 33 S.W., 36 N.W., 36 N.E. of the 6 inch Ordnance Survey maps of Merionethshire. It is on the north side of the estuary of the Mawddach, extending from the sea at Barmouth to the locality of Gwynfynydd on the north-east. The belt forms the south-eastern flank of a range of high ground sloping down to the south and south-east from the mountains of Rhinog, Diphwys, and Garn. It is drained by several tributaries of the Mawddach, of which the principal are the Afons Hirgwm, Cwm-llechen, Cwm-mynach, Wnion, Las, Gamlan, Eden, and Gain.

A Homestead Moat at Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire

1946 ◽  
Vol 26 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 138-144
Author(s):  
Audrey Williams
Keyword(s):  
Outer Edge ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
The South ◽  
North West ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Ancient Monuments ◽  
The Village ◽  
Western Half

A small moated site in Scales Park near the village of Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire (fig. 1), has lately been examined by the Ancient Monuments Department of the Ministry of Works. It lies just within the Hertfordshire-Essex boundary, four miles north-east of Buntingford and eight miles north-west of Bishop's Stortford. On the O.S. 6-in. sheet (Herts. 9 NE.) it is marked as The Warren, but not as an antiquity; nor is it included among the 139 homestead moats recorded for the county by the Royal Commission.Scales Park comprises something over 400 acres of well-grown woodland on the plateau which forms the watershed of the rivers Stort and Quin, both flowing south to join eventually the Thames. Its height above sea-level is 450 ft. on the northwest, declining gently to 400 ft. on the east and south. Geologically the area consists of chalky clay over the chalk.The moat of the Warren, enclosing an approximately square island about a quarter of an acre in size, varied in width from 10 to 25 ft. and at the time of excavation was filled with black boggy silt. Round its outer edge ran a low much-spread bank, 20 to 30 ft. wide but not more than 2 ft. high. The enclosure presented a puzzling combination of mounds and hollows. A large mound, 9 ft. 6 in. high, on a raised platform occupied the north-eastern half. The south-western half had centrally a similar platform, 5 ft. above the surface of the moat, with flanking mounds, 6 and 7 ft. high, at the corners (pl. xxiv b). The cavities between the mounds were practically level with the moat; slight ridges barred the western hollow and the south end of the eastern hollow.

scholarly journals XXIII.—On the Position of the Portus Lemanis of the Romans

Archaeologia ◽  
1867 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-374
Author(s):  
Thomas Lewin
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Historic Period ◽  
South Side ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The Common ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Hill ◽  
The Village

The Portus Lemanis must clearly have been one of the great thoroughfares between Britain and the Continent, and it is not a little singular that the position of a port once so famous should never have been satisfactorily settled. The common impression is that it lay at the foot of Lymne Hill. For the benefit of those who are not familiar with this neighbourhood, I should mention, in limine, that the village of Lymne or Lympne stands about 2½ miles to the west of Hythe, on the highest part of the cliff which girds in the eastern portion of Romney Marsh. On the declivity of the hill, about half-way down, is seen the old Roman castrum, called Stuttfall, occupying 10 or 12 acres. There are walls on the north, east, and west, and the east and west walls run down to the marsh itself; but, what is remarkable, the south side towards the marsh had never any wall,” and hence the erroneous notion so generally prevalent that at the foot of the castrum was once the Portus Lemanis, and that in the course of ages the sea retired from Lymne, when the port shifted to West Hythe, and that the sea again retired, when the port was transferred to Hythe. I shall endeavour to show that these changes, if they ever occurred, must have preceded the historic period, and that in the time of the Romans, as for many centuries afterwards, the only port was Hythe. In fact Portus and Hythe are the same thing, Portus in Latin being Hyð in Saxon.

scholarly journals XXXIX. The lignites and clays of Bovey Tracey, Devonshire

1862 ◽  
Vol 152 ◽  
pp. 1019-1038 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
The South ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
The Village ◽  
Western Portion ◽  
North Western

The little town or village of Bovey Tracey, in Devonshire, nestles at the foot of Dartmoor, very near its north-eastern extremity; it is situated on the left bank of the river Bovey, about two miles and a half above the point at which it falls into the Teign, and is about eleven miles from each of the towns Exeter, Torquay, and Totnes*,—bearing south-westerly from the first, north-westerly from the second, and northerly from the last. A considerable plain stretches away from it in a south-easterly direction, having a length of six miles from a point about a mile west of Bovey to another nearly as far east of Newton; its greatest breadth, from Chudleigh Bridge on the north-east to Blackpool on the south-west, is four miles. It forms a lake-like expansion of the valleys of the Teign and Bovey rivers, especially the latter, whose course it may be said to follow in the higher part, where it is most fully developed; whilst the Teign constitutes its axis below the junction of the two streams. Its upper, or north-western portion, immediately adjacent to the village, is known as “Bovey Heathfield,” and measures about 700 acres.

scholarly journals XX. Account of the Remains of a Roman Villa, discovered at Bignor, in Sussex, in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, and 1815. By Samuel Lysons, Esq. V.P. F.R.S.

Archaeologia ◽  
1817 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 203-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Lysons
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
Roman Villa ◽  
North Side ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Town ◽  
The Church ◽  
Common Field

The village of Bignor, in Sussex, is pleasantly situated on the north side of the South Downs, at the distance of about nine miles from the sea, six miles from Petworth, and about the same distance from Arundel. Within half a mile of the village runs a Roman road very distinctly marked, leading from Chichester by way of Pulborough (where it crosses the river Arun) to Dorking, and from thence to London. On this road there was great reason to expect some traces of a Roman station about Bignor, as Richard of Cirencester, in his fifteenth Iter, next after Regnum, proceeding eastward, introduces a station which he terms “Ad decimum,” not noticed in the Itinerary of Antonine; and Bignor is, by the Roman road, about ten miles disstant from Chichester, the Regnum of the Romans. No Roman remains had however been noticed near this place till the year 1811, when a mosaic pavement was discovered by the plough in the month of July, in a field called the Deny, about a quarter of a mile east of the church, part of a copyhold estate held under the Earl of Newburgh by Mr. George Tupper, a respectable farmer, by whom it is also occupied. The inhabitants of the village have a tradition, that Bignor formerly stood in this field, and the common field adjoining, on the east, called the Town-Field.

scholarly journals IX-XII. FOSSIL LOCALITIES, FAUNAL LISTS & INDEX OF BRACHIOPOD GENERA AND SPECIES

1962 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-256
Keyword(s):  
List Type ◽  
The South ◽  
North West ◽  
Eastern Side ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
South West ◽  
North Bank

ExcerptFossil collections have been obtained from a large number of localities in the Girvan area. Most of them have been referred to in the text, but those described below are localities from which figured material and types have been obtained.(a) AUCHENSOUL LIMESTONE AND CONFINIS FLAGS(1) Red mudstones and limestone breccias exposed on the south bank of the River Stinchar, 100 yards east of the bridge leading to Auchensoul Farm, 1i88 miles out of Barr on the Pinmore road (Auchensoul Limestone and Mudstones, Auchensoul Bridge).(2) Brown- and yellow-weathering calcareous confinis siltstones exposed on the hillside, 100 yards west of Struit Well, 300 yards west-north-west of Kirkdominae ruins on the north side of the Stinchar Valley, 1i89 miles west of Barr (confinis Flags, Kirkdominae Hill).(3) Brown-weathering calcareous confinis siltstones exposed in the bank of the pathway leading from the old limekiln to the quarry excavated in Stinchar Limestone, 450 yards west-south-west of Minuntion Farm on the north side of the River Stinchar and about 1i89 miles north-east of Pinmore bridge (confinis Flags, Minuntion).(4) Yellow-weathering, pebbly siltstones and impure nodular limestones transitional from confinis Flags to Stinchar Limestone, exposed on the eastern side of the water-filled quarry 300 yards south-west of Bougang Farm, 3 miles east of Ballantrae on the ColmoneU road (top of the confinis Flags, Bougang).(b) STINCHAR LIMESTONES AND SUPERSTES MUDSTONES (1) Mudstones with nodular limestones exposed on the north bank of the Water of Gregg, half a mile east of its junction with the

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