A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



illustrated in a sumptuous volume of plates and plans issued in 1828.* 

 Unfortunately he wrote no text to this volume, and though the plates to 

 some extent explain themselves and a few details have been recorded 

 otherwise, the absence of any coherent account has seriously lessened the 

 value of his work. In 1844 the discoveries recommenced. The con- 

 struction of the Peterborough and Northampton railway led to finds 

 near Sibson at the Wansford station, and Mr. Artis then made some 



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slight further search. There is much more to be done and much that 

 is singularly well worth doing. The area once occupied by buildings is 

 wide and mostly unexplored. The foundations of the buildings are well 

 preserved, and their walls, according to Mr. Artis, may be found in some 



* The Durobrivae of Antoninus identified and illustrated in a series of plates exhibiting the excavated 

 remains of that Roman station in the vicinity of Castor, by E. T. Artis. London, 1828, folio 60 plates 

 and plans. Artis is not the only archaeologist who has found digging with the spade easier than describ- 

 ing with the pen. A summary of what can be deduced from his plates was contributed by the late 

 Archdeacon Trollope to the Archaeological Journal, xxx. (1873), 127-40. His collection was dispersed 

 by sale after his death in 1 847 ; some of his finds were presented to the Peterborough Museum by 

 Mr. A. Sykes in 1893, and sketches of these by Jas. T. Irvine are in the Bodleian Library. A good 

 collection of pottery, made by Mr. Knipe, late rector of Water Newton, is in the Archaeological 

 Museum at Cambridge. 



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