1 The display case on the north wall of the south aisle of St George’s Church, included keys to the stocks which stood on the green outside the Old Rectory. ...
The site of Medieval or Post Medieval stocks, a wooden frame through which criminals would be made to place their hands and feet as a punishment. The stocks were situated on the green by the Old Rectory in Lower Brailes.
1 The Free School was founded in 1533. The school was being maintained by an annual payment of £8-1s-8d out of the yearly church revenue. The chantry commissioners ...
Brailes Free School was founded in the Post Medieval period and continued in use until the 1960s. It was situated to the east of the church at Lower Brailes.
1 This Methodist chapel is brick-built with a date of 1863 over the door. It replaces an earlier chapel built at College Green in 1847 (see PRN 2304).
2A photographic record ...
A Primitive Methodist Chapel which was built during the Imperial period. It is situated at Upper Brailes, 300m north of Grove End.
1 Early 17th century building, having two stories and attics, stone built. The west gable end has the original stone mullioned windows and wing lights. The front is ...
Old Rectory Farm, a house which was built during the Post Medieval period. It is situated 100m north west of The Park.
1 There was a mill in Brailes at 1086. A mill is recorded in 1529, 1547 and several times in the 17th century. It seems to have been working in ...
The site of Brailes Mill, a watermill which was built during the Medieval period but continued in use until the Imperial period, according to documentary evidence. Earthworks at the site may represent the remains of a watercourse. The site is located 500m west of Meadow Coppice.
1 ‘Tumulus’ marked.
2 Case was told that the barrow could still be traced but had not visited the site.
4 Beesley records that a small circle of stones was ploughed up ...
The possible site of a Neolithic or Bronze Age round barrow, a circular mound surrounded by a ditch, usually concealing a burial. The site is located on Gallow Hill.
1 At a height of nearly 152m in the village of Upper Brailes, is a detached artificial mount, surrounded by entrenchments, called ‘Castle Hill’. The site is commanding. The present ...
Castle Hill, a Medieval motte and bailey castle. The remains of the castle motte are visible as an earthwork. The site is located 200m west of Castle Hill Lane, Upper Brailes.
1 Finds of Roman pottery from brick earth pits.
Findspot - fragments of Roman pottery were found 200m west of Castle Hill, Upper Brailes.
1 A survey of 1279 mentions a park and a warren. The coney warren was included in a lease of the manor house and demesnes made to William Raynsford in ...
The site of a Medieval rabbit warren, used for breeding rabbits. The remains of the warren are visible as earthworks. The site is located 1.5km east of Winderton.
1 A hamlet in Brailes parish. Rous lists it, and there appear to have been a number of successive partial enclosures. These are recorded in 1430, 1509, 1549 and 1598. ...
The Medieval deserted settlement of Chelmscote. Hollow ways, house platforms and enclosures are visible as earthworks. The site is located 1km north west of Compton Wynyates.
1 Brailes was a village whose fields lay open in the traditional Midland pattern until William Brown was granted, in 1485, the offices of bailiff of the lordship and keeper ...
The site of the Medieval shrunken village of Lower Brailes. The site is visible as an earthwork. It is situated 300m south of the church at Lower Brailes.
1 Autumn 1966: A large number of pot sherds were picked up from ploughed fields. April 1967: An extensive search was conducted and the spread of sherds and tile fragments ...
The possible site of a Roman settlement. Fragments of Roman pottery, tile and glass have been found on this site and the remains of a stone floor were found when archaeologists dug a test pit. The site is located 500m east of Castle Hill Lane, Upper Brailes.
1 During the autumn of 1966, a large number of potsherds were picked up in ploughed fields. In April 1967 an extensive search of fields was conducted and the spread ...
Findspot - a large number of pottery sherds were found 600m north of Lower Brailes suggesting that this might be the site of a Roman settlement.
1 Mesolithic flint cores and blades were among the material recovered from around Highwall Spinney, Brailes Hill after reports of flint finds from the farmer.
2 Two other possible Mesolithic flints, ...
Findspot - flint objects, dating to the Mesolithic period, were found 400m north east of Cawley's Covert.
1 A 19th century map records the name long barrow field in the area around this grid reference.
2 The owner of Aylesmore Farm, says that “Long Barrow Field” is the ...
The possible site of a Neolithic long barrow, a rectangular mound associated with the burial of human remains. The site is suggested by place-name evidence. It is situated 1km north east of Upper Brailes.
1 During excavations in the area (SP3039) Roman coins, pottery and tile have been found. Two ditches only were found and these were without dating evidence.
2 Noted on Consultancy map.
Findspot - Roman coins, fragments of pottery and tile were found 200m west of Castle Hill Lane, Upper Brailes, during excavations.
1 Flints have been picked up from the surface of this location – in particular the southern margin of the field on the higher ground north of Fisher’s Coppice and ...
Findspot - a flint scatter comprising flint artefacts of Prehistoric date was found to the north of Fishers Coppice.
1 A late 15 century or early 16 century dagger found in clearing out a ditch at Brailes, not far from Compton Wynyates House.
3 11th century stirrup mount, copper alloy, ...
Findspot - a Medieval dagger and a stirrup mount were found in the area north of Winderton.
1 About half a mile S of Upper Brailes is a place called Radnall Bush, where indications of early settlement are apparent. Here skeletons have been dug up, and the ...
The possible site of a settlement of unknown date suggested by earthworks. Burials have also been found at the site, suggesting the presence of a cemetery. The site is located at Cawley's Covert.
1 Roman coin found in 1968. AE 4 of Arcadius (AD 395-408).
Findspot - a single Roman coin was found 200m west of Castle Hill Lane, Upper Brailes.
1 Roman coin found on Holloway Hill by GPO engineers laying a cable in the verge of the road c1965. AE follis of Constantine I (AD 293-305). Several other coins ...
Findspot - several Roman coins were found on Hollow Hill.
1 Air photo, shows rectilinear cropmark.
2 Nothing visible on the surface.
The site of a possible enclosure of unknown date. It is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It is situated 700m south of Compton Wynyates.
2 Small subrectangular enclosure shows on air photograph.
An enclosure of unknown date is visible on aerial photographs as a cropmark. It is situated 400m south west of Compton Wynyates.
1 Coin brought into the Museum by a Shipston High School pupil in 1970. Halfpenny token of 1669 found near Upper Brailes church.
2 17th century halfpenny (Nuremberg Issue), found by ...
Findspot - a Post Medieval token and a coin were found 100m east of the chapel at Upper Brailes.