More information : A kiln of normal Romano-British type was revealed during levelling operations by bulldozer in October 1954, at the east end of the village behind the Daneswell Garage, - adjacent to the suspected line of the Roman Road (SE 71525577). This led to exposure and partial destruction. The kiln was excavated with the help of staff and boys of Pocklington School. It proved to be an updraught kiln. No dating evidence was recovered but it was assumed to be Roman as it was of a common Romano-British type and close to an important Roman road junction. No evidence was retrieved to define its use. (1)
A kiln discovered at Stamford Bridge but not understood in 1954 can now be interpreted as a military oven set in the back of a clay rampart with cobble base. An air photograph taken by the Ordnance Survey shows the cropmark of the east corner and the shadow of part of the south-east rampart of a fort. The position of the north-west side is fixed by the river terrace and part of the ditch is still visible at its foot. The fort enclosed 1.8 ha (see illust card). (2)
(SE 715555) - Roman auxiliary fort side located 1976 by RCHME partially below and just NE of the present Stamford Bridge Village". (3)
A possible fort at Stamford Bridge, where an oven discovered in 1954 may not be seen as a feature within a fort, whose ditches have been picked up both from the ground and from aerial photography. (4)
According to Professor Frere, the evidence for a fort at Stamford Bridge is extremely vague. (5)
The fort at Stamford Bridge is not accepted by R A H Farrar. Nothing visible on O.S. air photographs. (6)
The aerial photograph referred to by Ramm was very ambiguous. Subsequent observation of a housing estate built over the supposed NE corner revealed no sign of a ditch system nor Roman objects. (7)
Stamford Bridge. Possible fort of uncertain date. (8)
This feature was not identified on photography available for the Vale of York mapping project. (9) |