1 Evaluation carried out during Jan-Mar 1988. 5 trenches excavated by hand to a depth of 1.5-2m with trenches 2 & 4 fully emptied of archaeological deposits. In ...
The remains of Roman settlement were found during archaeological work in Gas House Lane, Alcester. Evidence of timber buildings, including pits and post holes, was found. Finds from the site included Roman jewellery and coins.
1 Further work in 1926 at the site of an old sawpit produced evidence for another stone building with fragments of wall, concrete floor, flue tiles, tesserae and painted plaster. ...
Evidence for a high status RB building recorded by Davies. Location not certain but thought to be N of Meeting Lane.
1 A Romano British Ditch was found during an archaeological excavation in the grounds of St. Faiths Primary School. It was probably a drainage ditch or field boundary similar ...
A Romano British Ditch was found during an archaeological excavation in the grounds of St. Faiths Primary School.
1 Enclosure with single entrance clearly visible on an AP.
2 Site fieldwalked, and subsequently rewalked and trial trenched in 1998 by Coventry and District Archaeology Society. Ceramic evidence of RB ...
An enclosure, of Roman date, is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The enclosure is situated 500m north west of Broadwell. Trial trenches have been excavated across this enclosure.
1 A sherd of greyware and a fragment of an oxidised ware handle were found during excavations.
Two sherds of Romano-British pottery were recovered during excavations to the north of the church.
1 Settlement features from the 1st/2nd centuries AD were found. A later 4th century ditch also contained stone which may have come from a building.
Four pits and a post hole dating from the late 1st or 2nd century were found. One pit was cut by a 4th century ditch. Possible building stone was also found. The site forms part of the Romano-British settlement of Tiddington.
1 Fieldwalking by the Edgehill Project Group produced a concentrated scatter of Romano-British pottery sherds associated with ironstone rubble and dark soil. Some larger stones have been dumped into the ...
The possible site of a Roman settlement. Fragments of Roman pottery, tile and quern stone were found during a fieldwalking survey. A resistivity survey was carried out at the site and revealed a feature of high resistance. Magnetometer survey indicates a possible villa site with earlier ring ditches. The site is located 300m west of Sun Rising Covert.
In part one, I mentioned Romilly Lunge’s overseas adventures. His life in film had seen him mix with many famous people. Hitchcock once interviewed him, and they both admitted to ...
Hillcrest farm in Warton, North Warwickshire, was a rural place seemingly far removed from the bright lights of London and Milan. For a while after the war however, the farm ...
Ronald had previously worked as an agricultural labourer during World War One.
A film making career beckons
As an electrical engineer Ronald was always interested in amateur cinematography and in 1935 produced ...
Edgar Ronald Gardner (known as Ronald) was exempted from combat in World War One, working instead as an agricultural labourer. By World War Two he had become a film-maker and was ...
My earliest memory of Rootes was the annual visit to the pantomime at the Coventry Hippodrome with the other kids of Rootes workers. We all got a Christmas stocking of ...
123 Rose and Crown public house, Market Place, Warwick.
Historic inn recorded on the Board of Health map of Warwick. Also on F. White and Co.’s and Pigot’s databases. The latter ...
Historic public house situated on the west side of the Holloway off the Market Place.
1 This carries the towpath of the Oxford Canal over a short branch leading to Rugby. Typical product of the Horseley Iron Company, probably dating from the 1880’s. ...
Roving Bridge, a canal bridge that was built during the Imperial period. It is situated 500m south west of Brownsover.
1 Tower WINDMILL, ‘with a terrible top’.
2 Derelict red brick tower in poor condition, partly cemented, with batter increasing slightly at top; boat cap, two pairs of stones, upright shaft ...
Rowington Green Windmill, the remains of a tower mill built in the Imperial period. It was converted to steam, but ceased operating in 1916. During World War One it was used to house German prisoners. It now forms part of a house complex.
Records of the Parish of Rowington and surrounding area. A mostly photographic archive containing around 4,000 old photographs and documents from in and around Rowington.
Rowington Windmill is a red brick tower windmill, three storeys high, and was built about 1785. It had a boat cap, two pairs of stones, an upright shaft and machinery.
The ...
