The recovery from the Irthlingborough site of moulded architectural stone fragments from a plinth or cornice can be added to the earlier find of a sculptured slab in relief showing part of the marine thiasos, the retinue of followers of Oceanus, representing the realm of the sea. What structure this stonework was associated with is uncertain, but it may be paralleled by a similar but more extensive collection of sculptured and moulded stonework from the nearby villa site at Stanwick, where a funerary monument of some significance has been suggested. It may be that the Roman Nene valley landscape was punctuated by several structural markers reflecting the ‘monumentum’ of associated villa populations.
