1 This field is known as Pit Close on an estate map 1766.
2 Some pits are still visible but are now tree-filled.
The site of a quarry dating to the Post Medieval or Imperial period. Some of the quarry pits are still visible as earthworks. They are situated in the area of Wainbody Wood.
1 The tenants of Stoneleigh called Sokemen, were compelled every three weeks to do their suit at the King’s Court held for the manor, upon a place called Motslow Hill, ...
The site of a mound that may have been a Medieval meeting place. The mound is situated 300m south of the church at Stoneleigh.
1 British coin from Stoneleigh.
2 Iron Age coin found at Stoneleigh. Evans type 1:6 AV stater of the Dobunni, inscribed CORIO.
3 Coin lost.
4 Noted by Ordnance Survey.
Findspot - an Iron Age coin known as a stater was found near Church Lane, Stoneleigh.
1 Neolithic axe of Graig Llwyd felsite with ground cutting edge found in 1934 in a ploughed field, 1083m S, 35 degrees E, of Gibbet Hill crossroads.
2 Axe found in ...
Findspot - a Neolithic stone axe was found 500m south east of Gibbet Hill.
1 Perforated stone disc, ploughed up on SE edge of Crackley Wood in 1954.
2 Roughly round perforated disc with sharp undulating edge. Group XV.
3 Perforated disc – 12/ah.
4 Identified as ...
Findspot - a stone object dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age periods was found 200m south of Crackley Wood.
1 Stoneleigh. Coins. Under index of Roman finds.
Findspot - several Roman coins have been found in the area of Stoneleigh.
1 Bronze Age Pygmy vessel – a small crude pot found by a workman engaged on digging a deep drain across a field at King’s Hill, Finham. Classified by British ...
Findspot - a Bronze Age miniature pot was found 300m south west of Finham Green.
1 Fragment of battle-axe (17/ah; Group XIV). Found near Stoneleigh Abbey. Now in Warwick Museum.
2 Mention.
Findspot - a stone axe of Neolithic or Bronze Age date was found in the area north of Ashow.
1 A bridge is marked.
2 The present bridge is iron, probably late Victorian, and is still usable.
An iron footbridge from the Imperial period, on the site of an earlier bridge. It is marked on a tithe map of 1843. The footbridge crosses a loop of the Avon, 300m southwest of Stoneleigh Abbey, and is still usable.
1 Â…part of a field named ‘Cunneyore’? in 1597 the ‘Conery’ in 1749 and ‘Cunnery Close’ in 1766. Thses names suggest that the field was the site of an artificial ...
Possible site of an artificial rabbit warren associated with the South Garden of Stoneleigh Abbey, suggested primarily be place name evidence. There is some doubt about its interpretation as a medieval/post-medieval warren; it has also been interpreted as part of the drain system.
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Medieval Wood formerly The Frith
1 The possible extent of the medieval settlement based on the OS map of 1886, 26SE.
2 The entry in Domesday has the village in Stoneleigh Hundred. The Phillimore edition gives ...
The possible extent of the medieval settlement at Stoneleigh based on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886.
1 A number of earthworks survive, the most siginificant of which may represent the remains of a medieval watermill. There are a number of possible mill pools linked to a ...
A series of earthworks indicate the presence of a watermill. Documentary evidence suggests that the mill may date to the Medieval Period. The site lies 600m south of the National Agricultural Centre.
1 2 The remains of a heavy anti aircraft battery. The control building survives in good condition and three of the battery structures are visible as earthworks on the ground, ...
The remains of an anti aircraft battery from the Second World War.The control building survives and earthworks of three battery structures. The site is 500m southwest of Finham Bridge.
1 A stray find of two flint flakes and some burnt stone made during a site visit.
A stray find of two flint flakes and burnt stone. The location was 600m north of Stoneleigh village.
1 The site of a heavy anti aircraft installation, H66, first mentioned in 1942, and not listed in June 1942 as equipped with permanent large calibre guns or with radar.
2 ...
The site of a heavy anti aircraft battery dating from the Second World War and identified from documentary evidence. It was located north west of Ticknell Spinney, Stoneleigh.
1 The bruillum of Echells included meadows to the north, west and south of the sixteenth century wood, and fields to the east.
The bruillum of Echells included meadows to the north, west and south of the sixteenth century wood, and fields to the east.
1 A map of 1766 shows an area of woodland far more extensive than the present wood. At that time it was divided into Great Munkes Hays, Little Munkes ...
Woodland mentioned in Medieval documentary sources with possible wood banks and ditches surviving as earthworks.
1 A Bronze palstave discovered at Burton Green shortly before the 1914-18 war in Arden. Now in Birmingham Museum. A typical palstave. The stop-ridge and loop are well developed but ...
Findspot - a Bronze Age palstave, a type of stone axe, was found in the area to the south west of Burton Green.
1 Find of a pilgrim ampulla in 1994. The grid reference supplied was the area of SP333705, there were no details about the method of recovery.
2 Drawing of 1.
Find of a pilgrim ampulla, a miniature phial worn around the neck, from the medieval period. It came from near the river in Stoneleigh Deer Park.
1 Stone foundations for a covered walkway were recorded in the garden to the east of the main house. The walkway was designed by C S Smith in 1818 ...
The remains of stone foundations for a covered walkway linking the stables and riding school to the main house. Designed by C S Smith in 1818. Demolished mid 20th century.
1 In 1535 the last Abbot surrendered to the Crown. The Abbey lay a roofless ruin until 1561. An Elizabethan building was constructed and remained substantially unaltered until 1710. The ...
The remains of Stoneleigh Abbey buildings that are of Medieval date. Parts of the abbey cloister, chapter house and dormitory survive and have been incorporated into a later building. The abbey buildings were located 500m north west of The Grove.
1 The ancient bridge of four arches stood immediately downstream of the existing one built in 1842.
2 The present bridge, of red sandstone with three elliptical arches, was built early ...
Cloud Bridge, a red sandstone bridge built in the Imperial period to replace an earlier bridge. It crosses the Avon 1km southwest of Bubbenhall Bridge.
1 A mound at SP33077235 is likely to be the Hundred mound of Motslow.
2On modern OS maps this is shown as a quarry.
The site of a mound which is visible as an earthwork. The mound may have been the Post Medieval meeting place of the hundred of Motslow. It is situated 400m south of Stoneleigh.