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.
1 On the N slope of the hill, on what appears to be a levelled area, a heavy scatter of Romano British pottery has been revealed by the plough. Other ...
Numerous pieces of Roman pottery have been found on Blacklow Hill. This may indicate that there may once have been a Roman Settlement there.
1 Worked flints at above grid reference. This area proved negative.
2 Presumably the comment about the area proving negative refers to the absence of finds/features after topsoil stripping.
3 Dating given ...
Findspot - Prehistoric flint artefacts were found under the A46, 200m north east of the northern most roundabout of the Warwick bypass.
1 In connection with survey work for the Kenilworth By-Pass, these parallel ditches were shown to be part of the Post Medieval field system.
2 The By-Pass covers part of the ...
The site of a Post Medieval field system. Part of the field system still lies in fields between Warwick Road, Leek Wootton and the Warwick bypass, approximately 100m south of Wootton Road.
1 Medieval decorated tile from Leek Wootton.
2 From the ‘Old Church’.
Findspot - Medieval decorated tiles came from the 'Old Church' (All Saint's Church) at Leek Wootton.
1 22 cores, 103 flakes and blades were found in a field which is now the northern-most roundabout of the Warwick By-Pass.The site was probably an occupation or working site.
2 ...
Findspot - Mesolithic flint artefacts were found under what is now the northern most roundabout of the Warwick bypass. The finds may indicate an occupation or working site.
1 Retouched flake ?scraper found in donor’s garden at Woodcote Drive, Leek Wootton. Length 54mm, width 25mm max.
2 Flint bifacial blade tool.
Findspot - a flint artefact, a blade, of Neolithic or Bronze Age date was found in a garden behind a house on Woodcote Lane, Leek Wootton.
1 Lord Algernon Percy of Guy’s Cliffe had four coins (silver of Antoninus Pius, Commodus, bronze of Nero) which were found at Blacklow Hill. Others are believed to have been ...
Findspot - four Roman coins were found on the south side of Blacklow Hill.
1 Roman coins vaguely mentioned by J T Burgess as being found at Goodrest.
2 No additional information.
Findspot - Roman coins were found in the area of Goodrest.
1 A 17th century farthing token found at a farm at Leek Wootton. The grid reference is approximate. Type Temp. Commonwealth or Charles II c1660. The reverse has the initials ...
Findspot - a Post Medieval farthing was found behind houses on the east side of Warwick Road, Leek Wootton.
1 On the shore silts of the River Avon. Two pieces of Romano British pottery.
Findspot - two pieces of pottery dating to the Roman period were found 800m north east of Hill Wootton.
1 On the surface of sandy soil, which had been disturbed by tree felling, several well-patinated flints. They have striking platforms, bulbs of percussion, bulbar scars and ripples. No cores ...
Findspot - flint artefact of Neolithic or Bronze Age date were found 30m north west of the A46 on Blacklow Hill.
1 Mesolithic flints from the general area around SP300680 and now in Coventry Museum. Three cores, nine blades/flakes, one scraper, one microlith.
2 Dating confirmed as Mesolithic.
Findspot - flint artefacts of Mesolithic date were found in the area of Hill Wootton.
1 The hamlet of Heath was probably in what is now called Hill Wootton but part of it stood on the other side of the Holbroke.
2 Holbroke is now Cattle ...
The possible site of the deserted settlement of Heath which was occupied during the Medieval period. The site is known from documentary sources and is believed to have been located 500m north of the modern hamlet of Hill Wootton.
1 Rescue excavation in advance of the construction of a housing estate on part of the deserted settlement. Surface indications included a hollow way running E-W along the S of ...
The site of the Medieval deserted settlement of Leek Wootton. An excavation of the site showed Medieval period activity including a hollow way, house platform and enclosures. The site lies under houses on Tidmarsh Road and The Hamlet.
1 Stocks located at the Saxon Mill, in close proximity to the main wheel. The stocks have a plaque which says, ‘These original public punishment stocks were removed and restored ...
Wooden stocks dating to the Post Medieval period, in which an offender's wrist's and/or ankles were locked as a punishment. The original site of these stocks is unclear. They were restored in 1957 and are now at The Saxon Mill public house just north of Warwick.
1 Manor house shown.
2 In 1861 Mr Wise pulled down the old manor house and built a new one.
Documentary evidence shows a Post Medieval manor house on an early map. It was pulled down in 1861 to make way for a new house. The site lies 50m north of the radio mast at Warwickshire Constabulary Headquarters, Woodcote.
1 When the old manor house of Goodrest Lodge (WA 2558) was pulled down a new one was built outside the moat in 1784. It was further modified in ...
Goodrest House, which was built during the Imperial period. It replaced Goodrest Lodge (WA2558), which was pulled down. The house lies approximately 1.5km west of Leek Wootton.
1 Excavation inside the moat revealed the foundations of a number of walls, usually about 0.23m below the surface. Several of these were followed, but insufficient work was done to ...
The site of Goodrest Lodge, a Medieval/Post Medieval manor house with double moat, bridge, fishponds and well. Remains of these features are visible as earthworks. On excavating the site, walls and floors were revealed. It is situated at Leek Wootton.
1 A probable mill-bay. Up to 2.3m high on both sides with roughly squared blocks visible where the dam has been breached.
2 Fishpond marked on a map of 1845.
3 The ...
The remains of a dam associated with a probable mill pond. The dam and the pond survive as earthworks. They date to the Medieval/Post Medieval period and are situated 350m south west of Fox Covert, Leek Wootton.
1 Not marked on a map of 1719. The pond may have been constructed after this. It is part of the extensive grounds of Wootton Court, which was built ...
A fishpond used for the breeding and storing of fish. It is visible as an earthwork and dates to the Imperial period. It is situated 200m south east of Wootton Court, Leek Wootton.
1 Fishponds marked.
2 These still exist in the same form.
Fishponds used for the breeding and storing of fish. Their date of origin is unknown. They are marked on a map of 1847 and suvive as earthworks. The fishponds are situated 100m south east of North Woodloes, Leek Wootton.
1 Tollbar marked at the V-junction between the road to Leek Wootton and Hill Wootton.
2 The N most roundabout of the Warwick bypass now covers this area.
Documentary evidence indicates that there may have been a toll gate at the junction between the Leek Wootton / Hill Wootton roads. The site is now covered by the northern most roundabout on the Warwick bypass.
1 Brick Kiln Close marked. Field names come from Tithe Apportionment map 1748.
2 This document could not be located in the County Record Office, but an 1822 Award (without plan) ...
The site of a possible brickworks dating to the Imperial period. An eighteenth century tithe map marks a brick kiln close at a location to the east of Wedgnock Rifle Range.