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Fig. 2. Potential street grid at Stratford-sub-Castle (AP No. NMR 15365-61) 



include a complete stamp of the Lezoux potter 

 LOLLIVS. Only one sherd pre-dates c. AD 70. The 

 postholes appeared to respect the alignment of the 

 nearby Roman road. These features were sealed by 

 a later phase of soil horizons and roughly metalled 

 surfaces of flint nodules or chalk rubble thought to 

 be external yards to buildings. This phase yielded 

 2nd-3rd century AD pottery with just one sherd of 

 possible 4th century origin. The amount of ceramic 

 building material found was small but included a 



piece of roof tile and four fragments of box-flue 

 tile. The latter items suggest the presence of a fairly 

 high status building in the vicinity, containing either 

 a vault or rooms heated by a hypocaust system 

 (Mcmahon and Hawkes 2000, 18). 



Most recently in 2001, in advance of planning 

 consent for the construction of a new house at 

 Silverdale in the Stratford Road (SU 13453185), 

 two small evaluation trenches were machine dug. 

 They were some 20m to the south-west of those 



