Romano-British Isled Barn

Empingham, Rutland

NGRef: SK9407/SK9408 OSMap: LR141 Type: Romano-British Buildings
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SK943077 - A number of Roman structures have been located on man-made terraces. Features included a well, about 16 feet (5m) deep which contained 20 sheep's heads, assorted sheep bones and colour-coated pottery sherds dated c.AD270. Buildings beneath the main isled-barn give a terminal post quem of around the first quarter of the third century.

See: Britannia ii (1971) pp.258/9.

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