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The Roman Villa at Cotterstock, Northamptonshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

Stephen G. Upex
Stephen G. Upex
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University of Brunei, Brunei Darussalam, stephenupex@hotmail.com
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Abstract

At about the beginning of July, 1736, a servant to one Mr. Campion, a gentleman Farmer living at a little Village called Coddlestock in the County of Northamptonshire, at a distance of about one mile from Oundle, being at plow in an open field belonging to the said village, and at the edge of that lordship adjoining to Glaphorn Field on a Headland commonly call'd the Guild Acre, discovered in a furrow several little stones which made a very uncommon appearance, and with which having acquainted his Master, he with an intimate Neighbour or two went privately to the place, and caused so much of the earth to be cleared from it, as to give them a view of a small part of a very elegant piece of work, to which they were unable to assign any Name.

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Britannia , Volume 32 , November 2001, pp. 57 - 91
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Copyright © Stephen G. Upex 2007. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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