1 Excavated in 1972. A ring ditch approximately 24m in diameter from SW to NE and 27.5m from SE to NW. In plan it formed a pear-shape. The ditch was ...
A pear-shaped ring ditch was found during an excavation. It was found to date to the Neolithic or Bronze Age. Inside the ring ditch was a sub circular line of pits, one of which contained a large flint blade, and the possible remains of a mound.
1 Excavated 1972-3. A C-shaped enclosure at the end of the cursus (MWA719) was totally excavated. It was termed the ‘mortuary enclosure’ on typological grounds; there was in fact no ...
The site of a C-shaped enclosure containing pits and post holes. It may have been a Neolithic mortuary enclosure. The site is 1km north east of Bushey Hill, Barford.
1 1965: Excavation revealed storage pits of two types – perhaps Neolithic. Aerial photographs show an oval cluster of small pits, over twenty in number. On excavation the basic features ...
A pit cluster was excavated and was found to be a series of stake holes and gullies. These are believed to represent one oval building and part of a rectangular building. The site may be Neolithic in date and is located 300m northwest of Bushey Hill.
1 Excavation of a pit which produced sherds of late Neolithic Fengate Ware.
A pit was excavated east of Bushey Hill, Barford. It contained fragments of Neolithic pottery.
1 1965: Excavation produced evidence for four ditched enclosures. Phases 1-3 were only partly uncovered. Phase 3 was a subrectangular enclosure with a gully which probably acted as a bedding ...
An excavation at this site uncovered evidence of ditched enclosures that suggested four phases of occupation. The features showed up on aerial photographs. Features and finds were of probable Neolithic date. The site was 300m north east of Bushey Hill, Barford.
1 1965: Excavation produced evidence for the ditch of a ring ditch and the entrance. An irregular avenue of driven stakes approached the entrance at an oblique angle. Stake holes ...
Part of a ring ditch, dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, was uncovered during and archaeological excavation. Stake holes and fragments of pottery were also found belonging to the same period. The site is located 300m south of Barford Wood.
1 1965: Excavation produced evidence for an Iron Age settlement (PRN 5588) and a Neolithic pit. The pit produced a sherd of Neolithic Fengate Ware.
A Neolithic pit, which contained a sherd of pottery, was found during an excavation. The site was 200m east of Bushey Hill, Barford.
1 1965: Trench cut across a group of pits. Four small pits with associated stakeholes, but no finds. Also a number of large pits. The excavator considered these pits to ...
An excavation was undertaken where pits were visible on aerial photographs. There were no finds to date these features but they may have been Neolithic. The site was 250m east of Bushey Hill, Barford.
1 1965: Mechanical sections were cut across a group of large pits. Before excavation it had been suggested that they were tree pits. The pits actually appeared to be archaeological ...
An excavation was undertaken where pits were visible on aerial photographs. Ditches, post holes and smaller pits were found. There was no firm dating evidence, but the features may have been Neolithic. The site was 400m east of Bushey Hill, Barford.
1 A large complex of cropmark features including ring ditches, enclosures, pits and linear features. Excavation produced evidence for Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Romano British occupation. ...
During an excavation evidence for a settlement was found. The features included pit clusters, ditches, enclosures and barrows. The settlement existed at the site from the Neolithic to the Roman period. It was situated east of Bushey Hill, Barford.
1 A core fragment and broken scraper probably dating to the Late Neolithic/Bronze Age period were discovered from a posthole in area ‘B’ during archaeological excavations in advance of the ...
Late Neolithic/Bronze Age flints discovered from Area 'B' from excavation in advance of the construction of the Barford Bypass.
Find of neolithic flints.
1 Catalogue entry.
2 Two groups of Neolithic flint artefacts from Old Barn Field, Barford, and Wasperton.
1 The site was excavated by Warwick Museum in advance of the building of the M40 motorway and is now totally destroyed. Finds included Beaker fragments, rare in Warwickshire, and ...
A boundary ditch, thought to be Bronze Age in date, was discovered during an excavation. Finds from the site included fragments of early Bronze Age pottery. The site now lies under the M40.
1 The site of a possible barrow on the bank of the River Avon on the parish boundary between Barford and Wasperton is suggested by place name evidence. The ...
Place Name evidence suggests that this may once have been the site of a Prehistoric round barrow. The site lies on the bank of the River Avon on the parish boundary between Barford and Wasperton
1 Three flint flakes found during a walkover survey.
2 The flints comprised a retouched flake, possibly a preform for a barbed and tanged arrowhead and a fragment from a mixed ...
Findspot - three Prehistoric flint flakes were found in a field just west of the nursery on Wellesborough Road, Barford.
1 Site is one element in a complex of cropmarks including enclosures and pits.
2 Air photos show the site as a double ring ditch with a faint possible ditch between ...
Aerial photographs showed a complex of cropmarks including a double ring ditch and pits. Excavation uncovered evidence of cremations and a probably hengi-form barrow of Neolithic and Bronze Age date. The site was under the M40 at Barford.
1 Part of a complex of cropmarks.
3 A very limited area of the cursus at Barford was excavated in 1972-73, confirming its shape, size and position, and (because it was ...
The site of a partially destroyed Neolithic cursus. The cursus was partially excavated in order to determine its shape and size. It can be seen as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It is located 400m south east of Barford Sheds.