1 Find made by metal detector in 1995: Fredrik of Sweden (1720-51), 2 or, obv. FRS above three crowns; rev. crowns above shield with crossed arrows, OR to right.
Find made ...
Findspot - a Post Medieval coin and a seal were found in Lower Brailes.
1 Found while metal detecting on permanent pasture ridge and furrow grassland at a depth of about 9″ below the furface. All finds very deep and few and far ...
Medieval-Post Medieval Finds
1 The Free School was founded in 1533. The school was being maintained by an annual payment of £8-1s-8d out of the yearly church revenue. The chantry commissioners ...
Brailes Free School was founded in the Post Medieval period and continued in use until the 1960s. It was situated to the east of the church at Lower Brailes.
1 Early 17th century building, having two stories and attics, stone built. The west gable end has the original stone mullioned windows and wing lights. The front is ...
Old Rectory Farm, a house which was built during the Post Medieval period. It is situated 100m north west of The Park.
1 Coin brought into the Museum by a Shipston High School pupil in 1970. Halfpenny token of 1669 found near Upper Brailes church.
2 17th century halfpenny (Nuremberg Issue), found by ...
Findspot - a Post Medieval token and a coin were found 100m east of the chapel at Upper Brailes.
1 Early 18th century main block of two stories, stone built, having four windows with key-blocks and a parapet. In the late 18th early/19th century a stone wing was ...
Brailes House, a house dating to the Post Medieval period. It possibly stands on site of an earlier manor house. The house is situated in Orchard Close, Brailes.
1 Brick kiln shown on First Edition Ordnance Survey map. Also on thrid edition 1925 map.
Brick kiln shown on First Edition Ordnance Survey map.
1 A selection of Post Medieval finds collected on land adjacent to Henbrook Lane. The items included a large bronze button decorated with a female bust, two roundels (18th ...
Findspot - various finds of Post Medieval date, including clay pipe bulbs, a bronze button and a harness fitting, were found east of Henbrook Lane, Upper Brailes.
The Map
This map was almost certainly commissioned by Ralph Sheldon (1537-1613), the coat of arms. It can be dated to the period 1580 to 1613.
Aesthetics Or Function?
The map’s unusual decorative ...
1 Compton Pike, a beacon, assigned to the late 16 century.
2 Probably erected as a beacon and subsequently used as a landmark. 16th century coursed square ironstone rubble.
3 Photograph.
Compton Pike, a beacon that was built during the Post Medieval period. It is situated 200m south of Windertonroad Spinney.
1 In 1850 there was a Friends Meeting House in Brailes, said to have been erected in the time of their founder, George Fox.
2 The original building was constructed c1684. ...
The site of a chapel which was built during the Post Medieval period. A new chapel was built on the same site during the Imperial period and continued in use until the 1930s. The chapel was situated 100m south of the school at Lower Brailes.
