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.
1 To the north of Area A, a sunken-featured building was located adjacent to the edge of the river terrace during the watching brief. It survived as two distinct ...
Sunken Feature Building dating to the Migration period discovered during excavations prior to the construction of the Barford Bypass
1 BRETFORD is recorded as a Borough in 1279 and in 1334 Subsidy was valued at £31.13. A market charter for Tues granted 2 Sept 1227, by K ...
On the Fosse. Granted a market and a fair in the 13th century. Recorded as a borough at around this time.
1 The remoteness of the church (MWA1022) from the centre of the town is probably to be explained by the conjecture, mentioned by Leland, that it occupies the site of ...
Documentary evidence suggests that this might be the site of an Early Medieval monastery, beneath the present Holy Trinity Church, at Stratford on Avon.
1 Narrow curvilinear ditches which post dated Romano British features and pre dated the medieval tenements, were uncovered during an excavation. Two sherds of Anglo Saxon pottery were found indicating ...
Evidence of possible Anglo Saxon activity to the west of Chapel Street, Long Lawford.
1 Find of an Anglo Saxon brooch fragment in, or before 1990. The location was described as “Whetstone Road Building Site, Nuneaton”. There is no Whetstone Road, but it could ...
Find of a fragment of an Anglo Saxon brooch in Nuneaton. The exact location is not known
1 Four Anglo Saxon strap-ends found in the Fell Mill area of Honington in spring 1996. No specific grid references were given, nor was the method of recovery recorded.
2 Two ...
Anglo Saxon items including strap-ends found in the Fell Mill area of Honington/Shipston on Stour.
1 Strap end from the 9th century found at the Cherry Trees Motel site in August 1992.
2 A 9th century strap end and a 6th century square headed brooch were ...
Find of items from the Migration/Early Medieval period from the Cherry Trees Motel site in Alcester.
1 Anglo-Saxon pot (Anglian decoration) found in 1864 when digging for stone within half a mile of the village of Long Itchington, ‘upon a high mound presumed to be a ...
The site of a possible Anglo Saxon burial dating to the Migration or Early Medieval period. An urn and fragments of human bone were found within a earth mound. The site lies 600m north of Long Itchington.
1 A loomweight with the impression of a buckle on it was found at Binton and is now in Warwick Museum.
2 Accession Card.
3 Drawing.
Findspot - a loomweight dating to the Migration period was found 100m north west of the church at Binton.
1 Portable Antiquities Scheme find provenance information:
Date found: 2006-04-18T23:00:00Z
Methods of discovery: Metal detector
2 Further information on the find of this early medieval cast copper alloy amulter, and the interpretation of ...
A cast copper alloy early medieval amulet, with runic inscriptions on both faces was reported by a metal detectorist from Billesley. The runic inscription may be composed in Latin, not Anglo-Saxon, suggesting a Christian association and hence a date after c.1000 AD.