2 Possible, but very faint, rectangular enclosure shows on air photographs.
The site of a rectangular enclosure of unknown date. It is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The enclosure is situated 1km north east of Stoneleigh.
1 AP.
2 No visible surface traces to indicate what the cropmarks represent.
3 Air photo could not be identified.
The site of an enclosure of unknown date. It is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The enclosure is situated 300m north east of Stoneleigh.
2 Possible undated settlement shows faintly on aerial photographs. Features include possible linear crop marks and enclosures and one possible stone-walled building.
3 This field is sometimes used as a car ...
The possible site of a settlement of unknown date. Enclosures and linear features are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The site is located 800m south east of Stoneleigh Abbey.
1 In 1564 this village paid a stone of wax yearly for maintenance of the lights in Stoneleigh Abbey. This place has also been depopulated; for, of twelve tenements that ...
The site of a Medieval deserted settlement is known to have existed from documentary evidence. The settlement was located 500m west of Gibbet Hill.
1 There are mill dams at SP2974 and SP3074. The N dam is 1m high with modern mutilation. The S dam is also mutilated. There are no traces of a ...
There is documentary evidence for a watermill at Cryfield Grange from the Medieval to the late Post Medieval period. It was recorded as a fulling mill in 1535. The dam banks remain visible as earthworks, 700m north east of Crackley Wood.
1 In 1086 there were two priests in Stoneleigh and one of them had a chapel at Cloud. The priest was called Edmund the Hermit, presumably because this was a ...
The site of a possible hermitage, a retreat used in this case by a priest. The hermitage dated to the Medieval period. It was situated to the east of Cloud Bridge.
1 A near square homestead moat, the S and W arms of which are waterfilled, the remainder dry. The enclosed area is now occupied by two buildings and there is ...
The site of a moat, a wide ditch surrounding a building, which dates to the Medieval period. It is still partially visible as an earthwork, and is situated 500m east of Black Waste Wood at Stoneleigh.
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 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.
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 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 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 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.
1 Deserted hamlet of Homburn described in Rous(c.1490) may be Home Grange in Stoneleigh. Ref 2 clearly identifies it with Sambourne, but this is wrong.
3 ‘DMH’ marked N of the ...
Documentary evidence suggests that the site of a Medieval deserted settlement lies in the area to the west of Stoneleigh Abbey.
1 A fragment of a decorated copper alloy horse harness fitting, probably a harness mount. In profile the fragment is gently curved across its longer axis rather than being ...
A fragment of copper alloy harness fitting of Late Iron Age/early Roman date, reported to the Portable Antiquities Scheme.
1 Two arrowheads, one a leaf-shaped example.
2 Finham. Flakes, blades in Coventry Museum.
Findspot - two flint arrowheads of Neolithic date were found 1km south west of Baginton.