1 A single Roman coin was found whilst gardening in 1983 at 17 Evesham Road. A bronze posthumous antoninianus of Claudius II (268-270).
2 Please note: this is just over the ...
A single Roman coin was found whilst gardening in 1983 at 17 Evesham Road.
1 Four Roman coins founds whilst gardening. Reported may 1982. Date ranging from the 1st to the 4th centuries.
Four Roman coins founds whilst gardening. Reported may 1982. Date ranging from the 1st to the 4th centuries.
1 A Sestertius of Lucius Verus found with a metal detector in 1985 by siyle on the footpath.
A Sestertius of Lucius Verus found with a metal detector in 1985 by stile on the footpath.
1 Two sub-oval pits or posthole features were recorded during archaeological work at the former Police Station, Priory Road, Alcester. They were Roman in date. The presence of large stones ...
Two sub-oval pits or postholes were recorded during archaeological work at the former Police Station, Priory Road, Alcester. They were Roman in date, and probably relate to a series of timber buildings previously identified across this area.
1 Alcester Poor Law Union was formed on 31st May 1836. The Alcester Union workhouse was built in 1837 at site to the east of Alcester on the south side ...
The Alcester Union workhouse was built in 1837 at site to the east of Alcester on the south side of Kinwarton Road. It followed the popular cruciform or "square" layout. A small infirmary block was added at the east of the site, and was extended southwards in 1879. The former workhouse later became Alcester Hospital, and the later infirmary block is still in use. The main buildings, now known as Oversley House, were converted to residential use in 1984.
1 The date of the founding of the original brewery is unknown but it appears to have been in the mid 19th century.
The Haines family are known to have ...
19th century brewery located off Church Street, Alcester.
1 A 14th century seal matrix was found in late 1996 at SP408258. The method of recovery was not recorded.
A seal matrix from the medieval period was found in a garden in Alcester.
1 Organic deposits seen across entire site. Contained wood fragments including several pieces up to 1.50m long. In two places several lay together possibly forming a platform. ...
Organic deposits sealed by a layer containing a probable BA flint revealed during salvage excavation. Further deposits were c14 dated to the Mesolithic, suggesting an earlier origin for the marsh, which was reclaimed in the Romano-British period.
1 A pit and several small post holes contained medieval pottery.
Medieval features revealed during salvage excavation of RB building.
1 Quaker meeting house with earliest evidence from Saville recording a meeting house in 1677. The Quarter Sessions record a meeting house in 1701. A deed of 1727 ...
Early 18th century Friends (Quakers) meeting house with graveyard. Located 40m southeast of the High Street in Alcester.
1 Three Roman coins found in the area of Beauchamp Court in, or before, 1990. No exact grid references were given and the method of recovery was not recorded.
Roman coins found in the area of Beauchamp Court, southeast of Kings Coughton. The exact locations are not known.
1 Items found in the area of Beauchamp Court in, or before, 1990. The exact locations are not known and the method of recovery was not recorded.
Items from the Imperial period found in the area of Beauchamp Court. The exact location is not known.
1 A barbarous contemporary copy of a Roman coin of the mid 3rd century found in May 1993 in the Chantry Crescent area of Alcester.
2 A 4th century coin of ...
Roman coins found in the Chantry Crescent area of Alcester
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 Find of six medieval coins, two seal matrices and a signet ring in a field behind the Cherry Trees Motel at SP098571 in September/October 1996.
Find of medieval items behind the Cherry Trees in Alcester
1 Portable Antiquities Scheme find provenance information:
Date found: 2010-03-31T23:00:00Z
Date found (2): 2010-04-25T23:00:00Z
Methods of discovery: Metal detector
A series of Romano-British PAS finds given this 4 figure grid reference. 43AD - 400AD
Location in field south of Mill Lane East of Sewage Works and 70m West of Roman Pits MWA508.
1 Portable Antiquities Scheme find provenance information:
Date found: 2006-08-31T23:00:00Z
Date found (2): 2006-11-01T00:00:00Z
Methods of discovery: Metal detector
A series of Romano-Britsh objects found during metal detecting.
1 Note on a record card found in Warwick Museum catalogue: ‘Bag of pottery, bone, iron nails,.
Find spot - various objects of Roman, Medieval and Post Medieval date were found in the south west area of Alcester.
1 Portable Antiquities Scheme find provenance information:
Date found: 2005-12-18T00:00:00Z
Date found (2): 2006-01-18T00:00:00Z
Methods of discovery: Metal detector
A series of Romano-British objects found during metal detecting.
1 Portable Antiquities Scheme find provenance information:
Date found: 2005-12-18T00:00:00Z
Date found (2): 2006-01-18T00:00:00Z
Methods of discovery: Metal detector
A series of Mediaeval objects found during metal detecting.
1 Portable Antiquities Scheme find provenance information:
Date found: 2005-03-31T23:00:00Z
Date found: 2006-08-31T23:00:00Z
Methods of discovery: Metal detector
A series of Mediaeval objects found during metal detecting.
1 Portable Antiquities Scheme find provenance information:
Methods of discovery: Metal detector
A series of coins from Late Iron Age to Migration found during metal detecting
1 The object is a miniature shield, which has been made from cast copper alloy. These shields date to the Iron Age period, Dr. JD Hill (British Museum) comments that ...
A minature shield of mid to late Iron Age date, reported to the Portable Antiquities Scheme.
1 A 19th century pitchback waterwheel 5.7m diameter by 0.7m wide which was part of a pumping station lifting water from a well and bore hole on the site to ...
Alcester pump house which was in use during the Imperial period. It was used to pump water to a reservoir on Grunt Hill. The water wheel is still visible but the parts of the pump house are not. It was situated 200m north of the church at Arrow.