1 Neolithic/Bronze Age arrowhead from Blackdown.
2 Brought in for identification in January 1982.
3 Now in Warwick Museum.
4 Source given as WMEF 1287, but this enquiry form only lists a medieval ...
Findspot - a flint arrowhead dating to either the Neolithic or the Bronze Age was found 700m north of Blackdown.
1 A Mesolithic flint axehead from Blackdown brought into the Museum. This is a Mesolithic axehead. The end opposite the cutting edge is pointed rather like a pick. It is ...
Findspot - a flint axehead dating to the Mesolithic period was found 700m north of Blackdown.
1 A gold finger ring from the 3rd or 4th century reported by metal detectorists.
Findspot - a gold finger ring dating to the Roman period was found 500m south of Bericote Wood.
1 Nine flint flakes found at Kenlea Market Garden in 1957. The field where they were picked up also has much brown flint, but none of this appears to have ...
Findspot - flint flakes, blades and scrapers of Prehistoric date were found 500m north east of Blackdown.
1 Worked flints. Between Leamington and Cubbington roads, opposite Blackdown Mill. Private collection.
2 Dating given of Mesolithic – Bronze Age.
Findspot - flints dating to the Prehistoric period were found 800m north east of Hill Wootton.
1 A mill, probably this site, is recorded in 1086. Later it became the property of Coombe Abbey. Information on ownership exists for the 16th to 20th centuries. The mill ...
Blackdown Mill, a watermill for which there are documentary records from the Medieval period. It was in use until the 1920s and the waterwheel and some of the machinery survive. It is on the south side of Hill Wootton Road.
1 Possible icehouse discovered by the owner when digging a trench behind some out-houses. The structure was subterranean, built of brick, with a quite low arched roof. It was undoubtedly ...
The site of a possible icehouse which was discovered during the excavation of a trench. It was built of brick and was used for storing ice in the warmer months. The icehouse dated from the Imperial period onwards. It was situated 200m east of Newbold Comyn park.
1 One Mesolithic core.
Findspot - a flint core dating to the Early Mesolithic period was found north of Leamington Spa.
2 Blackdown Hill (now Blackdown Hotel), Sandy Lane, Blackdown, Warwick.
Lovie reports this as a villa adjacent to the river Avon. E stands on high ground and the drive passes ...
Villa now hotel. Gardens have late C19th character with drive cut through rock and crossed by timber bridge, summerhouse, terrace, mixed planting.
Recommended for inclusion on Local List by Lovie.
Lovie suggests Listed Building Status for house and possibly garden features such as summer house.
1 Blackdown Manor garden, Blackdown,Warwick.
Lovie reports that eary 17th century house was remodelled in early/mid 19th century. Pleasure grounds with park-type planting in adjacent paddocks/field. At time of survey (1996/7) ...
Villa pleasure grounds with park-type planting some of which remains but has been neglected.
Recommended for inclusion on Local List by Lovie, with possible Listed Building Status for walls along Kenilworth Road.
1 Wallercote House garden, Sandy Lane, Blackdown, Warwick.
Lovie reports a villa with pleasure grounds, walks, mixed planting, summerhouse.
Villa with pleasure grounds.
1 West Hill, Blackdown, Warwick.
Lovie reports lodge, drive, pleasure grounds with terraces, conservatory, paddock and kitchen garden.
Mid/late 19th century house and grounds, with mature 19th century tree and shurb planting, ...
19th century house and gardens with mature planting surviving.
Recommended for inclusion on Local List by Lovie.
1 Wicksted House garden, Blackdown.
Lovie reports a villa with pleasure grounds, walks and mixed planting.
He gives its state as ‘untraced’.
Villa pleasure grounds with walks.
Archaeological evaluation.
1 An archaeological evaluation at Helen Ley House, Blackdown, involving background research and trial trenching revealed no significant archaeological remains. No further work is proposed.
1 Quarry marked on 1886 map.
The site of a quarry which was in use during the Imperial period and is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. It was located 600m north east of Blackdown.
1 Chesford Bridge is recorded in 1285 when it was in need of repair. It is also recorded in 1313. In 1353 the bridge was not ‘in decay’. In 1370 ...
Chesford Bridge, the site of a Medieval/Post Medieval bridge, for which there is documentary evidence from the 13th century. It crosses the Avon 500m north of Wootton Spinneys.