1 Two brooches. Large and clumsy examples of a fairly rare type. The two really distinctive features are a ‘plate’ on either side of the head of the brooch which ...
Find spot - two brooches of Roman date were found to the east of Bleachfield Street, Alcester.
1 An old SMR card records a Dupondius (Orichalcum) Domitian (AD 86). It was found in 1970, but the find spot is given only as Alcester.
2 The reference requires checking.
Findspot - a coin dating to the Roman period was found in Alcester.
1 To the west of Bleachfield Street. Clay floors with post holes having a 2.1m spacing were found together with dry stone walling. Below this were traces of C1 ...
During an excavation to the west of Bleachfield Street, Alcester, the remains of a Roman building were found.
1 Site E, the S most plot of Bleachfield Street Allotments, was brought to notice by the poverty of the crops on a broad strip running obliquely across the plot. ...
The remains of a Roman building were found at the Bleachfield Street Allotments, Alcester, during an excavation.
1 A Romano British Ditch was found during an archaeological excavation in the grounds of St. Faiths Primary School. It was probably a drainage ditch or field boundary similar ...
A Romano British Ditch was found during an archaeological excavation in the grounds of St. Faiths Primary School.
1 Find of a Roman brooch of the Polden Hill type in 1995 by a metal detectorist during construction of the Norton- Lenchwick bypass.
Find of a Roman brooch during major road construction 200m south of Oversley Mill.
1 An small assemblage of Beaker pottery was found within a posthole.
2Beaker pottery and flintwork came from a pit in area G. This, together with other Beaker material from a ...
Two Early Bronze Age pits were found during excavations prior to the construction of the A46 Norton Lenchwick Bypass
1 Four Romano British potsherds were found in unstratified contexts during a watching brief in advance of construction work. They included three Severn Valley jar sherds and part of a ...
A small number of Romano British potsherds, including one piece of Samian ware, were found in Bleachfield Street, Alcester.
1 A lead cloth seal was found during building work in an unstratifed context. It had been stamped with the initials WA.
Find of post medieval cloth seal during fieldwork in Bleachfield Street, Alcester.
1 Ditch 1001 probably represented a field boundary ditch, and another ditch may have been part of the same Romano British field system.
2There was a scatter of residual Roman pottery ...
Romano-British field boundaries found during excavation in the outer enclosure of Boteler's Castle. These were possibly part of a larger field system aligned on Ryknild Street.
1 The 1993 excavations produced 24 worked flint fragments, eight from one of the early Bronze Age features, the rest residual or from topsoil contexts. Further groups of 22 fragments ...
Flintwork from the outer enclosure of Boteler's Castle. It was mostly residual or from topsoil contexts.
1 Over 30 sherds of pottery from the garden of 13 Butter Street. Almost all Rb including Severn Valley, Samian, Black Buirnished, Grey and Rusticated wares.
Pottery recovered from the garden of 13 Butter Street. Almost all RB (a few post-med (or possibly med) sherds also).
1 The lower of two peatlayers seen in trenches I, II, and III was up to 0.4m thick. The upper part of the deposits produced two RB sherds and ...
The lower of two peat layers seen in trenching S of Moorfield Road, Alcester containd a little RB material.
1 Roman sherds found just E of Icknield Street in trench crossing the field for a pipeline. 1968: Indicated find spot under plough. No pottery visible on surface.
2 Further finds ...
Findspot - fragments of Roman pottery, coins and a brooch were found in the area 700m south east of Oversley Castle.
1 Moat Farm. C16 and C17 work survives.
2 This is now called Moat House Inn. The land behind the Inn has been landscaped for car parking etc. Local tradition is ...
The possible site of a moat, a wide ditch usually surrounding a building, of Medieval or Post Medieval date. The site is located at Moat House Inn, King's Coughton.
1 A group of 16 inhumations was found to the NE of Icknield St during observation of a pipe trench. The burials were 0.2-1.3m beneath ground surface in red ...
A cemetery of medieval date which may have been associated with Boteler's Castle, Alcester, which lies 200m to the west.
1 High spur of land, top ‘bulldozed’ away spring 1957 by Young Farmers Club when bones (human) were found (bones in Warwick Museum). Information from CID Leamington and site visited ...
The site of a number of human burials of unknown date. The site was located 400m south west of Chicken Meadow Barn.
1 The crop-mark in field 18, just east of the burials was seen to be a natural ridge of limestone; no evidence of a man-made feature was seen.
Linear feature seen on APs shown to be a natural ridge.
1 A wide shallow U-sectioned ditch was observed in a pipe trench.
A ditch of unknown date was found during archaeological work. It was situated 1km north west of Oversley Castle.
1 1140 Ralph le Boteler of Oversley founded a Benedictine abbey. The site was encompassed by the River Arrow to N and E and by a connecting moat to S ...
The site of Alcester Abbey, a Medieval monastery and moat. Some of the abbey buildings, including the Chapter House, have been excavated. Other parts of the abbey, including the claustral buildings, are visible as earthworks. The site is located north of School Road, Alcester.
2 Finds made with a metal detector included a bronze strap end buckle with crude face design. This is Medieval, perhaps 14th – 15th century.
Findspot - various finds of Medieval date, including a bronze strap end buckle, were found north of Stratford Road, Alcester.
1 Head of a Tau Cross, in ivory, carved with foliage and figures. Found at Alcester in 1873. Dated variously to the 10th, 11th or 12th century. ...
Findspot - the head of a Medieval Tau Cross carved in ivory was found on the west side of the High Street, Alcester.
1 Just E of Icknield St, SW corner of field. Many horseshoes found here, possibly site of a Medieval or later smithy.
2 Noted.
Findspot - a large number of horseshoes, possibly of Medieval or Post Medieval date, were found to the east of Icknield Street, Alcester.
1 A small amount of (?)Middle Iron Age pottery came from this site.
Findspot - Iron Age pottery was found in Tibbets Close, Alcester.