Bannaventa

Bannaventa or Benaventa was a Romano-British fortified town which was situated on the Roman road later called Watling Street [1]. Bannaventa straddles the boundaries of Norton and Whilton, Northamptonshire [1]. Bannaventa was a small fortified town on this road 10.9 miles (17.5 km) north-northwest of the Roman town of Lactodorum (now Towcester) [1]. Bannaventa was a staging post for Romano-Celtic travellers and would have operated along the lines of the coaching towns of a later period along Watling Street [1]. The fortified town would provide a safe, warm resting place where provisions for the journey could be bought and horses and other livestock could be safely stabled overnight [1]. A possible location for a Mansio (an Imperial hostel) or mutatio (a more basic staging post) was identified in a 2016 survey [1].