Site of Iron Age Settlement to South of Old Barn Cottage

A possible settlement site near Sherbourne

Warwickshire County Council

Description of this historic site

The site of a possible settlement dating to the Iron Age. Enclosures are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. It is located 1km north east of the church, Sherbourne.

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Notes about this historic site

2 Adjacent to the cursus (MWA1921) is an oval or D-shaped enclosure which has a W entrance and appears to enclose two penannular gullies. This may, on morphological grounds, be Iron Age.
4 Scheduled as Warwickshire Monument No 140.
5 Site no 81 in survey.
6 Site is under grass on hummocky ground. No visible surface indications and no surface finds.
7 Noted by Ordnance Survey.
8 Dating revised to Late Bronze Age to Iron Age.
9 The D-shaped enclosure and several other cropmark features are visible on modern Aerial photography.