1) Geophysical survey (magnetometry) by ArchaeoPhysica Ltd has recorded evidence for at least two phases of settlement at this location. Features identified include round huts (including possible evidence for internal ...
Geophysical survey has recorded evidence for at least two phases of settlement at this location. A large number of finds recovered from this area through metal detecting and fieldwalking suggest that this settlement dates to the Bronze Age/Early Iron Age periods. The quantities of finds recovered also suggests the presence of a midden site. This site lies 500m west of Upper Chelmscote.
1 Marginal, much corroded, bronze socketed looped celt, recently found on Ettington Heath Farm. Extreme length 10 cm, breadth 4 cm. It is of a type common in Ireland but ...
Findspot - a Bronze Age axehead was found in the area of Ettington. The exact location of the findspot is unknown.
1 Barrow. From the area many flints (Neolithic – PRN 4618).
2 Rather badly ploughed out. At above grid reference.
3 The mound was still visible, but under constant threat by ploughing. ...
The site of a Bronze Age (2600-600BC) round barrow, a mound usually constructed to cover a human burial. The barrow has been partially excavated but survives as an earthwork. It is situated 300m north of the junction of Hinckley Road and Gipsey Lane.
1 First recorded by Stukeley. By 1920 it was 0.23m high, but in 1982 it had not been lowered very much. In 1982 two quadrants were excavated indicating that very ...
The site of a round barrow, probably of Bronze Age date. It is visible as an earthwork and is situated 750m south east of The Hollows.
1 In 1835 Mr Hawkes of Birmingham and Bloxam excavated a round barrow near Oldbury. The barrow, before excavation, was of bowl-shaped form, about 3.9m high and 23m ...
The site of a round barrow, an artificial mound built to cover a burial. It dates from the Bronze Age and contained two cremation burials and a later A-S burial (MWA6001). It is on the W side of Harthill Hayes Country Park and survives as an earthwork.
1 Two possible pit alignments were found during geophysical survey.
Two rows of circular features were picked up by a geophysical survey. Whilst they could represent former fence lines there is no known evidence for this. The features could therefore form prehistoric pit alignments.
1 Five small pits containing cremated bone and charcoal were found. A carbon date from one the human bone fragments dated to 1495-1319 Cal. BC. They are likely to ...
A group of five small pits containing cremated bone and charcoal dating to the middle Bronze Age were discovered at Birch Coppice.
1 Marginal. Pennanular gold ring turned up by extra deep ploughing in a field at Wormleighton in 1851. Its weight is 10 pennyweights and nearly 17 grains and a half, ...
Findspot - a gold or bronze money ring dating to the Bronze Age was found in 1851 near Wormleighton.
1 A pit with 36 pottery sherds dating to the late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age period was discovered in area ‘B’ from excavation in advance of the Barford Bypass.
A pit with 36 pottery sherds dating to the late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age period was uncovered from excavation in advance of the construction of the Barford Bypass.
1 Bronze socketed spearhead with loops of Middle Bronze Age date. Found at the above grid reference in 1965 in a trench of a building site by a representative of ...
Findspot - a spearhead dating to the Bronze Age was found 800m south west of Newbold Comyn Park.
1 A saddle quern was found in a grubbed out hedgerow. It was handed into Warwick Museum.
2 Accession Note.
3 Saddle querns date from late BA through to RB ...
Findspot - a saddle quern of Prehistoric date was found 600m south east of Church End.
1 Flint barbed and tanged arrowheads. Found in Odibourne Allotments.
2 Six arrowheads.
Findspot - six arrowheads dating to the Bronze Age were found near The Close, Kenilworth.
1Aerial imagery on Google Earth appears to show a heavily ploughed curvilinear ditch enclosing the top of a hill c.500m southwest of Oldberrow Court Farm. This could be a hillfort. ...
Cropmark possibly denoting a hillfort approximately 500m southeast of Oldberrow Court Farm and about 500m east of Bishops Farm.
1 A single pit alignment, visible running c.120m, is evident on Google Earth satellite imagery from 2006. It runs approx. NNE-SSW. Several other features are visible to the south, including ...
A single pit alignment, visible running for at least 150m, is evident on Google Earth satellite imagery from 2006.
1 Portable Antiquities Scheme find provenance information:
Date found: 2004-05-31T23:00:00Z
Date found: 2005-12-18T00:00:00Z
Methods of discovery: Chance find during metal detecting
Parish: Bidford-on-Avon
District: Stratford-on-Avon
A series of flint objects found during metal detecting. Flints generally dated to Neolithic period.
1 Probable tumulus. In 1951 it was about 25m E-W, 24m N-S and about 1.5m in height, with no sign of a ditch and was under plough. In ...
A possible round barrow, an artificial mound usually built in order to conceal a burial. It probably dates to the Bronze Age and was situated 400m north east of Ansley Hall.
1 Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead found just south east of Daw Mill Colliery.
2 Plan.
Findspot - Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead found just south east of Daw Mill Colliery, in the area west of Devitt's Green.
1 Bronze Age pottery.
2 No further information. The owner of the field, was questioned but knew nothing about the finds. 1961: The field was grass-covered.
3 Finds were probably Medieval ...
Findspot - fragments of pottery, originally believed to date to the Bronze Age, were found 400m west of Horsley Plantation. It is possible that the finds may date to the Medieval period.
1 A flint arrowhead was found in the parish of Polesworth at a date before 1763. Blackish flint, one side white.
2 An illustration shows that this was a barbed and ...
Findspot - an arrowhead made of flint dating to the Bronze Age was found in Alvecote Wood, 1km south of Alvecote.
2 Prehistoric pit alignment shows on aerial photographs.
3 Site 51 in survey.
4 Dating revised to between the late Bronze Age and the late Iron Age.
5 This site was further investigated ...
A Prehistoric pit alignment, pits set at intervals along a single, or parallel, line. It has alternatively been interpreted as a grubbed out hedgerow. The feature is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It is situated 500m north east of Welford Hill.
1 Site threatened by gravel extraction and excavated by CADAS from 1965-70. A Late Bronze Age cremation cemetery and enclosure were discovered, overlain by an Iron Age settlement (PRN 5510). ...
The remains of a Bronze Age cremation cemetery and an enclosure were found during an excavation. The remains were found 600m east of Bubbenhall.
1 A Bronze Age socketed axe from this site is now in Warwick Museum.
2 Noted by Ordnance Survey.
Findspot - a Bronze Age axe was found 1km north west of Welford-on-Avon.
1 Two potsherds found at SP25954435. Method of recovery unreported.
Findspot - two potsherds dating to a period between the late Bronze Age and the early Migration.
1 An undated ring ditch enclosure which may be contemporary with the Iron Age settlement (MWA 8815) and a funerary enclosure.
2 Dating given as Late Bronze Age to Iron ...
A ring ditch or enclosure, possibly of Iron Age date, was found during an excavation. The site was located 500m north west of Church Lawford airfield.