1 Finds made in 1975/6: One flake with traces of fine retouch or wear, one flake with retouched scraper type edge, one flake with retouch, one waste flake, one flake ...
Findspot - various flint artefacts and tools of Neolithic or Bronze Age date were found 300m north east of Glasshouse Wood.
1 A single span red sandstone bridge over Rocky Lane by the Lodge. No definite date is evident for the construction of the bridge, but the Lodge was at one ...
A sandstone bridge dating to the Imperial period that crosses Rocky Lane at the northern end of Thickthorn Wood.
1 A bridge is marked.
2 The present bridge is iron, probably late Victorian, and is still usable.
An iron footbridge from the Imperial period, on the site of an earlier bridge. It is marked on a tithe map of 1843. The footbridge crosses a loop of the Avon, 300m southwest of Stoneleigh Abbey, and is still usable.
1 A fragment of tegula stamped TC between broken edges was found during fieldwork in the vicinity of the Roman building in Glasshouse Wood. The letters are almost identical to ...
Findspot - part of a Roman tile, on which the letters TC have been stamped, was found in Glasshouse Wood.
1 There was more woodland to the east of the road, where How Grove, shown on a map of 1597, presumably occupies the site of the wood called le ho ...
Medieval Wood formerly How Grove
1 Glasshouse Wood contains banks, ditches and lynchets, some of which are aligned on the Roman building (PRN 2594) and therefore are probably connected. Most of the earthworks lie to ...
A field system, comprising banks, ditches and lynchets that all survive as earthworks. The field system seems to be associated with a Roman building. The field system is located in Glasshouse Wood.
1 On its W side the wood is contained within a bank and ditch. This, except for a break to the S of the wood, encloses the W side of ...
A bank and ditch, probably of Medieval date, mark the western boundary of the parish of Ashow. The bank and ditch survive as earthworks. The boundary is located to the west of Glasshouse Wood.
1 Finds made in 1975/6: a concentration of Roman pottery and a few pieces of Roman tile in the field opposite.
3 Field-walking carried out since 1989, immediately E of the ...
Various finds of Roman date, including pottery and tile fragments, have been found to the north east of Glasshouse Wood. The finds suggest that this might be the site of a Roman settlement.
1 Find made in 1975-6: one bladelet with retouch, possibly Mesolithic.
Findspot - a flint artefact, possibly of Mesolithic date, was found 100m north east of Glasshouse Wood.
1 A bridge is shown.
2 A bridge is shown.
3 The present footbridge is fairly modern in appearance, but the sandstone bridge footings seem considerably older.
4 A footbridge is shown here ...
A footbridge which dates from the Post Medieval period, and which first appears on a map in 1597. The present sandstone footings are probably older than the superstructure. It crosses the Avon 900m southeast of Stoneleigh Abbey.
1 A bridge is marked.
2 The present bridge is iron, probably late Victorian, and is still usable.
The site of a Post Medieval bridge which is marked on a tithe award map of 1843. It was situated 100m southwest of the Adventure Playground in Stoneleigh Park.
1 Sandstone hone 6.4cm long and 3.8cm diameter found during Kenilworth bypass survey.
Findspot - a whetstone of unknown date was found 100m west of Bericote Wood.
2 Linear features show on aerial photographs. These could represent a continuation of the field system in Glasshouse Wood.
Several linear features are visible on aerial photographs. They are situated in Glasshouse Wood.
Area of hand made bricks, one brick deep, possibly a wall or paving area.
Area of hand made bricks, one brick deep, possibly a wall or paving area.
1 Wooden pound (kept in order until fairly recently). Information from local inhabitant, 1951.
2 Pound marked.
3 There are no longer any traces of the pound.
The site of a wooden pound, used for penning livestock in the Imperial period. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1905. The pound was situated at the north end of Ashow.
1 Five scrapers and flakes found during the last seven years by the Coventry Natural History Society in the field in the SE corner of the Coventry Road and Rocky ...
Findspot - several flint artefacts of Neolithic or Bronze Age date were found 500m east of Thickthorn Wood.
1 In 1086 there were two mills on the Avon in Ashow.
2 ‘Old Mill Close’ marked.
3 ‘Old Mill Close’ marked.
4 These are good indications that at least one of the ...
Documentary evidence suggests that two watermills, dating back to the Medieval period, were situated on the River Avon, in the area of Ashow. One of the watermills might have been located 800m south west of Brick Kiln Spinney.
1 There were said to be two mills at Ashow in 1086. Documentary evidence appears to indicate that one mill was located at approximately SP3270.
2 Beighton shows what appears ...
The possible site of a Medieval watermill is suggested by documentary evidence. The site lies to the west of the church at Ashow.
1 A mill is recorded at Bericote in 1086. In 1291 two mills are recorded. A fulling mill had fallen down by 1547.
2 It is difficult to ascertain where the ...
The site of a possible Medieval watermill, suggested by documentary sources, and by the sandstone remains on one bank of the brook. Its use as a fulling mill is recorded. The location was 300m south of the church at Ashow.
1 Alredfordbrugge c1427. Used to be a ford here which led down road running into Cubbington Lane. River is changing its course and running more to the S. Information from ...
The possible site of a ford, a shallow point in a river where people and animals would have crossed. The date from which the ford was in use is unknown. The site lies to the south west of the church at Ashow.
1 Before the Conquest Kenilworth was a member of Stoneleigh and had a castle (Regist de Stonle F 4a) on the banks of the Avon in the woods opposite Stoneleigh ...
The possible site of a castle is suggested by documentary evidence. The site is located at The Grove, 700m north east of Ashow.
1 A glasshouse on the E side of Kenilworth first appears in the Parliamentary Survey of 1650 where a Glasshouse Coppice is recorded. A map of 1692 of Kenilworth Castle ...
The site of a glass works which was in use during the Post Medieval period. When trial trenches were dug the remains of walls and fragments of fused glass were uncovered. The site lies between Glasshouse Wood and Glasshouse Spinney, on the east edge of Kenilworth.
1 Discovered during fieldwork on the line of the Kenilworth Bypass. The site consisted of a possible field system and a house platform, or enclosure, on the edge of Glasshouse ...
A Roman enclosure or platform, visible as an earthwork, was recorded during fieldwork. Trial trenches revealed the remains of a Roman building and a cremation burial suggesting that this is the site of a Roman settlement. It is situated at Glasshouse Wood.