1 Work started on an unoccupied garden site behind the school house. Results up to date are a complex of small post holes with later pits. Among other pits found ...
Part excavation at this site uncovered evidence of occupation, possibly a Medieval shrunken village. The site is at Baginton, 50m east of the church.
1 Dugdale records large pools, canals and moats marking the site of a Manor House.
2 Details of a manorial history exist.
3 It is possible that either Shelford House or Shelford ...
The site of a Manor House, and its associated moat, a wide ditch usually surrounding a building. It dates to the Medieval period, and there is documentary evidence for its existence. It is situated at Shelford, southeast of Burton Hastings.
1 The site lies on Baginton-Lillington gravels. A salvage excavation was mounted in 1970 in advance of gravel extraction. Most of the features excavated appear to have been Iron Age ...
The site of an Anglo Saxon settlement dating to the Migration or Early Medieval period. The settlement was discovered during an archaeological excavation. It was situated 500m south of Brandon Wood.
1 Moat House Farm was the manor house of the manor of Mappleborough Green or Studley Hay. The house has some 17th century timber framing. There is also some 16th ...
The site of a Medieval manor house and an associated moat. The moat is marked on a Tithe Award map of 1849, and is still partially visible as an earthwork. It is situated 250m north of the Police Station at Mappleborough Green
1 A small round mound, which has recently been disturbed by a tree being uprooted in its centre. No surface indications of date or function.
2 This mound is similar ...
The possible site of a Post Medieval gazebo is marked by mound of earth. Alternatively, this might be the remains of a round barrow. It is situated 200m south of Combe Abbey.
1 An archaeological evaluation at Acorn House, Evesham Street, Alcester within the southern suburb of the Roman town found extensive, well preserved Roman deposits just below the modern garden soil. ...
An archaeological evaluation at Acorn House, Evesham Street, Alcester within the southern suburb of the Roman town found extensive, well preserved Roman deposits just below the modern garden soil. Pottery analysis suggests that the main occupation phase was mid-1st - early 2nd-century AD.
1 5.7m wide stone Roman foundation of Arden Stone supported on wooden piles (0.12m. diameter) driven into gravel. Part of the 4th century defences. Could be a tower or even ...
Two large sandstone foundations, likely part of the 4th century defences were found below the passage way between 53 and 55 High Street. The larger foundation was built on wooden piles.
1 Close to Atherstone Hill Farm. ‘At the extreme north-west angle of the Park pale is a curious mound, which may be a tumulus … but it is far more ...
The site of a mound which is possibly the remains of the summerhouse dating to the Post Medieval and Imperial periods. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1924 and is situated 600m north west of Preston on Stour.
1 A lofty erection (the Rotunda) stood on a mound of earth still remaining to the E of the footpath across the park leading to Atherstone. It had an octagonal ...
A mound is visible as an earthwork within Alscot Park. It has been suggested that an octagonal tower or rotunda of Post Medieval date stood on the mound. It is situated 600m south west of the church at Atherstone on Stour.
1 The Norman keep could have been preceded by a motte and bailey castle (PRN 3200), although Chatwin thinks that this is unlikely. Chatwin suggests that the keep was constructed ...
Phase two in the building of Kenilworth castle included the a great keep and a curtain wall with towers that were built during the mid to late 1100s and early 1200s.
1 Under the wealthy and ostentatious John of Gaunt the castle was first repaired and then, from 1391 onwards, converted from a feudal stronghold into a palace. To this period ...
Phase three of the building of Kenilworth castle included the Great Hall with cellars below, the 'Strong Tower' which housed the treasury, and the 'Saintlow Tower'. This phase of building began in about 1391 and continued into the 1570s.
1 The site of the ancient manor house of Alcester. In 1340 Giles de Beauchamp obtained a licence to crenellate his manor house here and to surround it ...
The site of a Medieval manor house at Beauchamp Court. The site is known from documentary evidence and some earthworks are still visible. The site lies 200m east of Birmingham Road, King's Coughton.
2 An undated subrectangular enclosure shows on aerial photographs.
3 In 1962 several trenches were cut and revealed the lower course of a dry-built limestone wall on clay foundations. The wall ...
The site of an enclosure of unknown date that is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The enclosure was partially excavated and the remains of a wall were found. The enclosure is situated 500m south of Fulham Wood.
1 A manorial history exists. In 1410 the Prior of Coventry had ‘a manor surrounded with pools’.
2 The moated site containing the Medieval manor was Scheduled as an Ancient Monument ...
The site of a moated manor house dating to the Medieval period. The house is known from documentary evidence. It is situated 100m west of the church at Packwood. A post hole was found during an archaeological works. It is likely to have held a large timber upright probably forming part of the timber-framing from a long demolished section of the house. Glazed ridge tile fragments were found inside the posthole suggesting the medieval buildings high status.
1 An excavation was conducted in 1906. On the summit of the hill were a number of saucer-shaped depressions. One was excavated with walls built of small slabs of stone ...
The site of a possible Iron Age round house. The remains of the house were discovered during an excavation at Meon Hill. Various finds, including flint flakes, a spearhead, part of a whetstone and Iron Age/Roman pottery, were recovered.
1 A group of large post holes indicated the presence of a large circular structure (F38), which had, unfortunately, been cut by a recent machine trench on its W side. ...
The site of a possible Iron Age round house. A circle of post holes was found during an excavation as well as Iron Age pottery. The site is located 500m west of Stretton on Fosse.
1 1976: An area of 11m by 17m was excavated in advance of redevelopment. 1m of Post Medieval deposit sealed the site. The latest feature on the site was a ...
The remains of several Medieval buildings were excavated in Bleachfield Street, Alcester. The buildings were indicated by post holes, walls and hearths.
2 The foundations of the College (PRN 1984) cut an earlier pathway. Running E-W under the college was a well-built wall, built with re-used stone and including architectural fragments of ...
Archaeological excavations at St Mary's College revealed Medieval structures including walls, pits, buildings and a well.
1 Withybrook has shrunk and expanded at intervals, earthworks mirroring its fluctuations in prosperity and changing farming techniques. It is not recorded until the 12th century. By 1327 it had ...
The site of the Medieval shrunken village of Withybrook. Remains of the village survive as earthworks.
1 Excavation in 1956-8 in the field W of Birch Abbey – a complicated series of post holes, slots and gullies, cut into the levelled natural clay and associated with ...
The remains of post holes and a wall, found during an excavation, suggest that a building existed on this site during the Roman period. A Roman ditch was also found. Finds included pottery and evidence for metal working. The site was located on Chantry Crescent.
1 In July 1966 earth-moving equipment was noted at Chesterton Camp and it was discovered that the farmer had received permission from MPBW to plough the site.
2 Ten weeks were ...
The archaeological excavation of the north west corner of the Roman Camp at Chesterton. The remains of a rampart and ditch were found. These were followed in the first half of the fourth century by a stone wall, ditches and counterscarp.
1 The Knights Templars held land in Chilvers Coton in 1185. These passed to the Knights Hospitallers when the former order was disbanded. The land possibly still belonged to the ...
The possible site of a Medieval manor house and associated moat, belonging to the Knights Templars, of Medieval date. The site is located 300m south west of Park Farm. Now disproved
1 Trench produced evidence for a Medieval house with a wall of sandstone and pebbles and a floor of beaten clay. Quantities of coarse and green-glazed pottery of 11th – ...
The site of a shrunken village dating to the Medieval period. It was excavated and revealed a house, a wall and pottery. It was situated 500m north east of Dean's Green.
2 Possible ring ditch or enclosure, other enclosures and linear features show on air photographs. Some of these marks are probably natural. The crop marks are impossible to plot because ...
The site of a Roman settlement. During partial excavation of the site, enclosures, ditches, houses and a possible corn drying kiln were found. The site was located 1km east of Bidford on Avon.