1 During a watching brief and topographical survey two house platforms were identified anlong with two other possible platforms. A possible cobbled road/trackway was found to the north and ...
A medieval trackway or road was recorded during a watching brief at Beau Geste, Sawbridge.
1 A single residual sherd of Anglo-Saxon pottery was recorded from 77 Tiddington Road. Although too much should not be made of a single sherd, this could represent a further ...
Sherds of Anglo-Saxon pottery and ditches and gullies have been recorded in work at 77 and 79 Tiddington Road. These could represent a further Anglo-Saxon focus along Tiddington Road.
1 Marginal. Saxon spearheads etc found when tennis courts were made at Ettington Park.
2 The tennis courts were situated at the above grid reference. The present location of the finds ...
Findspot - several Anglo Saxon spearheads, dating to the Migration period, were found 200m south east of the ruins of St Nicholas's Church at Ettington.
1 A boundary ditch and a post hole of possible medieval date were revealed in an evaluation trench.
A boundary ditch and a post hole of medieval or post-medieval date were found in an evaulation trench in 2010. A sherd of medieval pottery was recovered from the post hole.
12 In November 1790, three skeletons were found lying from N-S, with a bed of limestone above and below, about 0.76m below the surface. The most careful burial of the ...
The possible site of an Anglo Saxon cemetery. Several burials, dating to the Migration period, were found. They contained grave goods, including a spearhead and a sword. The burials were situated to the south west of Halford Bridge.
1 Found in the field known as Cat Field, to the north east of the field at Branson Hill Farm, where pottery and Roman coins were recovered between 1970-74 (WA ...
Findspot - a Byzantine coin of Justin II was found on the southern edge of Chesterton Wood.
1 This is possibly the site of a pagan saxon temple on Harrow Hill. The name ‘Harrow’ may indicate ancient heathen worship (‘hearg’) on the hill.
2 The field ...
The suggested site of a pagan temple on Harrow Hill, the name 'Harrow' possibly refers to a place of worship. There are no earthworks present, but the site may date to the Migration Period.
1 1836: An urn of black clay was dug up c197m E of the King Stone. It contained bits of burnt bone and the ‘blade of an old razor’ – ...
The possible site of a cemetery dating to the Migration period. It is situated 1km south east of The Hollows.
1 Excavations in advance of the Kenilworth bypass have revealed a series of enigmatic circular pits 1.2m in diameter cut into the sandstone bedrock at the E end of Blacklow ...
An arrangement of pits, post holes and two burials were discovered during excavations on Blacklow Hill. The site may represent an Anglo Saxon religious site dating to the Migration period.
12 Site of possible old minster church, Coleshill.
As an important royal centre, Coleshill was a logical place for a pre-Conquest minster church, the church being the centre of the Deanery ...
Site of possible old minster church pre-Conquest, in the Blythe valley, on or close to the present church of St Peter and St Paul.
1 Site of Anglo-Saxon settlement at Coleshill.
The place name ‘Coleshill’ is Anglo-Saxon in origin.
During the early Anglo-Saxon period, Coleshill lay in the area of the Tomesaetan and in the Mercian ...
Sited on a prominent hill on the river Cole, near its confluence with the Blythe and Tame, and close to the Mercian royal centre of Tamworth and Lichfield.
1 Site of The Hundred Court, Coleshill.
The Coleshill Hundred was the largest of the 10 Warwickshire Hundreds in 1086, and the Hundred Court met six-monthly at Coleshill possibly on the ...
Possible site of Hundred Court on The Croft next to the Parish (former Minster) church.
1 Earth bank acting as possible dam, Wroxall Abbey. Earth bank across low area of valley which opens into bowl shape on the abbey side of the dam. Possibly for ...
Earth bank across a small valley for damming the small stream, possibly for a mill, within Wroxall Abbey Park.
1 Site of possible medieval settlement at Heath End.
Watkins shows the site of the medieval Heath End in the Parish of Coleshill. Situated south of the medieval town of Coleshill.
Site of possible medieval settlement south of Coleshill.
1 A charter of AD 956 records ‘Wilmanford’, where the Salt Way crosses ‘Wylman Broce’ (Wilman Brook).
2 Map.
3 Wylman Ford was on the border of Radbourn and Wormleighton.
4 Recorded in ...
The site of Wylman's ford which carrys an Early Medieval saltway across a stream. It is recorded in an Early Medieval charter and is marked on an estate map of 1634 and a tithe award map of 1849. It is located 1km south east of the Fish Ponds, Lower Radbourn.
1 Lillington. Saxon loomweight. ‘NB. This type is of an earlier date than the two from Atherstone.’ WM Accession A 521.
Findspot - a Saxon loomweight dating to the Migration period was found in Lillington. The exact location of the findspot is unknown.
1 One Anglo Saxon bead was found by F E Showkin at Milverton in 1897 and donated to the Museum.
Find spot - an Anglo-Saxon bead was found but the exact location of the find was not recorded.
1 A series of sixteen graves, dating from between the 7th and 9th centuries, were recorded during flood compensation works in Centenary Gardens. The burials were mostly adults and displayed ...
A series of sixteen graves, dating from between the 7th and 9th centuries, were recorded during flood compensation works in Centenary Gardens. The burials were mostly adults and displayed a range of pathologies, indicating joint disease, infections and dental disease.
1 In the Saxon chronicles the town is called “Werinca”, and a Saxon penny found here bears the legend “Werhica”.
2 Rous states that the mint was “certainly on the site ...
The possible site of a mint, where coins were produced. Documentary evidence suggests that a mint may have existed in Warwick during the Early Medieval period. The exact location of the mint is unknown.
1 “..adjoining Bascote…Saxon spearheads, a javelin or two, and a knife, were found when quarrying for limestone. These relics have passed into the hands of Miss Mathews of Ashby ...
The possible site of an Anglo-Saxon burial dating to the Migration or Early Medieval period. Various finds from the site included spearheads and a knife. The site is located in the area of Tomlow.
1 A flat-based pit was recorded during strip, map and sample excavation at Middleton, measuring 2.7m by 2.65m, with three stakeholes within this pit. It was interpreted as a sunken-featured ...
A flat-based pit was recorded during strip, map and sample excavation at Middleton; it was interpreted as a sunken-featured building of likely Anglo-Saxon date, although the chronology of the feature was not clear.
1 Find of an Anglo Saxon brooch fragment in 1986 at SP10605208.
2 Drawing of 1.
3 This record is a duplicate of SWA 5696.
Find of a fragment of a brooch from the Migration period 50 southeast of Grafton Lane.
1 Found in 1994 at SP46007900. The method of recovery was not recorded.
Anglo Saxon trial piece brooch found 600 m south west of Easenhall.
Originally on Solihull HER MSI1828 – 5829
1 2 It was in existence in C9, known as Fox Shawe – Place of Foxes.
3 Dubious as not referenced in above source. ...
Medieval settlement.