1 The earliest village at Burton Dassett belongs to the Anglo Saxon period. A cemetery of this date was found during quarrying on the Burton Hills in 1908, probably ...
The remains of a Post Medieval window inserted into the Medieval Chapel at Dassett Southend for the purpose of Roman Catholic Mass in the Post Medieval period.
1 The earliest village of Burton Dassett belongs to the Anglo Saxon period. A cemetery of this date was found during quarrying on the Burton Hills in 1908, probably ...
A priest's house of Post Medieval date which was attached to a chapel at Southend.
1 ‘There hath anciently been a chapel here, dedicated to S.Leonard, but now it is ruinous’.
2 The site of the chapel and deserted village was probably between Owlington and Marlborough ...
Documentary evidence suggests that this is the site of the Medieval Chapel of St Leonard, associated with the deserted settlement at Hardwick. It is located 1km south west of Temple Herdewyke.
1 The name ‘Burton’ implies some kind of fortified centre, which is likely to have been on the high ground near the church. The Medieval earthworks around the church ...
The possible site of an Early Medieval settlement at Burton Dassett. The remains of a substantial enclosure suggest that a settlement may have existed here before the Norman Conquest.
1 About the year 1850, a number of skeletons were brought to light in a stone pit at the S end of the Burton Dassett ridge, on an elevation known ...
Several undated burials were found in the 19th century on Burton Dassett Hills. They were thought to be criminals who had been gibbeted. The burials were found in an area that was subsequently quarried.
1 1908. The remains of about 35 skeletons were discovered on the summit of Mount Pleasant by men quarrying for ironstone. According to the manager, the bodies, ...
The site of an Anglo Saxon cemetery, dating to the Migration or Early Medieval period. About 35 individuals were found. Some of them were buried with objects which included various pots and a seax. The cemetery was located on Pleasant Hill, Burton Dassett.
1 Around 1909 an almost perfect skeleton was reported to have been found at the summit of the hill lying opposite to Mount Pleasant, at the N end of ...
The site of a single burial of unknown date. It was found on Bonfire Hill, Burton Dassett.
1 At Little Dassett is an ancient stone chapel, long since disused, now a store-shed with a thatched roof. The E part, about 8.9 by 6.6m outside, has ...
The remains of a Medieval Chapel. The west end of the building was removed during the Second World War. It is situated at Little Dassett.
1 Stands on a hillside which rises considerably from W to E. Chancel, nave, N and S transepts and aisles, N porch and W tower. This is one ...
The parish church of All Saints, Dassett. This is one of the finest churches in South Warwickshire. It was built in the Medieval period, with alterations in the 13th Century, with the west tower added in the 14th. The church is situated on the slopes of Church Hill.
1 In the field to E of A41, where it crosses the railway at Burton Dassett, is a group of mounds. They may be ploughed down tumuli. ...
1 ‘There hath antiently been a chapel here, dedicated to S.Leonard, but now it is ruinous, the village being totally depopulated’
2 Hardwick was a member of the manor ...
The possible site of the Medieval deserted settlement of Hardwick. Documentary evidence shows that there were eleven people living here during the 13th century. The site lies 1km south west of Temple Herdewyke.
1 The village used to surround the church near the summit of the hill, where there is now only a farm and vicarage. The main village is now ...
The site of the Medieval shrunken village of Burton. The remains of the village survive as earthworks, some of which have been excavated. The site lies to the west of the church at Burton Dassett.
1 NW of the beacon stood until 1946 a wooden post windmill complete with sails, perhaps the successor of the ruined windmill called ‘le Stonmilne’ which Sir John, Lord Sudeley, ...
There is documentary evidence for a windmill here from the Post Medieval period and possibly earlier. It was of the post mill type and was restored in the 1930s but blew down in the 1946. It was at Windmill Hill.
1 On top of the Burton Hills is a round tower called the Beacon, built of uncoursed square rough ashlar. It was apparently a late Medieval lookout tower which was ...
A Medieval tower known as The Beacon. It has been suggested that it was originally used as a windmill and was later converted to a look-out tower. It stands on Windmill Hill, Burton Dassett.
1 The figures in the Lay Subsidy returns of 1327 and 1332 suggest that Southend was more than half as large again as any of the other hamlets in ...
The Medieval deserted settlement of Dassett Southend. In some areas the remains of the settlement are visible as earthworks and there is good documentary evidence for the settlement. The site is located between Temple Herdewyke and Little Dassett.
1 The chapel at Dassett Northend is in regular use. It was converted from a Victorian Chapel of Ease into a chapel to supplement the church at Burton. ...
Northend Chapel, built in the Imperial period, originally as a chapel of ease. It is situated 100m south east of the church at Northend.
1 A number of flakes in Warwick Museum labelled as ‘Palaeolithic’ are partly natural. The remainder are certainly surface discoveries, dating from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.
Findspot - flint flakes dating to the Neolithic and Bronze Age were found in the area around Kineton and Compton Verney.
1 Near the church is a ‘holy well’ with a well house built in 1840.
2 A well situated in a stone chamber, inside which is the mutilated date ...
A holy well with a well house situated beside the path to the north of All Saints' Church. The well may be of Post Medieval date, and the well house was built in 1840 in the Grecian style.
1 Low three-bay gabled front dated 1837; porch added 1914.
A Wesleyan Chapel built in the Imperial period. It is located in Knightcote.
1 In ploughed field pottery and coin of George III picked up. Features have been ploughed out but it was possible to pick up the line of shallow hollow ways ...
An area of shrunken village at Knightcote which dates to the Post Medieval period. It is known from the earthwork remains of house platforms and hollow ways. A Post Medieval coin was also found.
1 Knightcote Manor garden, Burton Dassett.
Mid/late C17th house. Gardens with pond and orchard although Lovie comments that there is little evidence of significant garden at the time of his report ...
Gardens with orchard and pond.
1 Medieval and Post Medieval finds from Knightcote were brought to the Museum.
Findspot - various finds dating to the Medieval and Post Medieval periods were found at Knightcote.
