1 Finds made by metal detectors in 1995: Two 15th century Flemish jettons and a small late Medieval bronze hinge.
Findspot - Medieval Flemish jettons and a bronze hinge were found on Springfield Farm, Lower Brailes.
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 Weight – 1/4 oz – Jurassic limestone, late Medieval.
2 Stud, bronze, late Medieval
3 Two late Medieval mounts, one with a knobbled edge and of uncertain function, one which is ...
Findspot - various Medieval items were found at 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 Find of an animal head terminal in or before 1998. Method of recovery unrecorded. No grid reference given. See source (SWA19055) for scale line drawing.
Find of an animal head terminal from the medieval period in Brailes.
1 There was a chapel in Winderton, which with its buildings and lands were granted in 1549 to John Nethermille and John Milwarde, but of its history nothing is known.
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The possible site of a Medieval chapel which is suggested by documentary evidence. The chapel is thought to have existed at Winderton.
1 There was a chapel at Chelmscote deserted settlement.
2 In 1322 Thomas de Pakinton founded a chantry of two priests in the chapel of Chelmscote. In 1406 the advowson of ...
The site of a Medieval chapel is suggested by documentary evidence. It is thought to have existed at the Medieval settlement of Chelmscote.
1 A fragment of a bone comb and about 150 medieval sherds were found in Lower Brailes, within the area of shrunken medieval settlement. The bone comb fragment was about ...
A fragment of a bone comb and about 150 medieval sherds were found in Lower Brailes, within the area of shrunken medieval settlement.
1 Two coins of the 13th Century reported by metal detectorists.
2 Metal fitting, perhaps a catchplate from a brooch. Medieval? 3 strap-end plates, bronze, one with triangular decoration, 14th century. ...
Findspot - various finds of Medieval date, including coins, pottery sherds and fragments of a brooch, were found 300m south west of the chapel at Lower Brailes.
1 The display case on the north wall of the south aisle of St George’s Church, included keys to the stocks which stood on the green outside the Old Rectory. ...
The site of Medieval or Post Medieval stocks, a wooden frame through which criminals would be made to place their hands and feet as a punishment. The stocks were situated on the green by the Old Rectory in Lower Brailes.
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 There was a mill in Brailes at 1086. A mill is recorded in 1529, 1547 and several times in the 17th century. It seems to have been working in ...
The site of Brailes Mill, a watermill which was built during the Medieval period but continued in use until the Imperial period, according to documentary evidence. Earthworks at the site may represent the remains of a watercourse. The site is located 500m west of Meadow Coppice.
1 At a height of nearly 152m in the village of Upper Brailes, is a detached artificial mount, surrounded by entrenchments, called ‘Castle Hill’. The site is commanding. The present ...
Castle Hill, a Medieval motte and bailey castle. The remains of the castle motte are visible as an earthwork. The site is located 200m west of Castle Hill Lane, Upper Brailes.
1 A survey of 1279 mentions a park and a warren. The coney warren was included in a lease of the manor house and demesnes made to William Raynsford in ...
The site of a Medieval rabbit warren, used for breeding rabbits. The remains of the warren are visible as earthworks. The site is located 1.5km east of Winderton.
1 A hamlet in Brailes parish. Rous lists it, and there appear to have been a number of successive partial enclosures. These are recorded in 1430, 1509, 1549 and 1598. ...
The Medieval deserted settlement of Chelmscote. Hollow ways, house platforms and enclosures are visible as earthworks. The site is located 1km north west of Compton Wynyates.
1 Brailes was a village whose fields lay open in the traditional Midland pattern until William Brown was granted, in 1485, the offices of bailiff of the lordship and keeper ...
The site of the Medieval shrunken village of Lower Brailes. The site is visible as an earthwork. It is situated 300m south of the church at Lower Brailes.
1 A late 15 century or early 16 century dagger found in clearing out a ditch at Brailes, not far from Compton Wynyates House.
3 11th century stirrup mount, copper alloy, ...
Findspot - a Medieval dagger and a stirrup mount were found in the area north of Winderton.
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 Linear earthworks marking out plots show on aerial photographs. This may mark out an area of shrunken Medieval settlement at Brailes.
2 Additional aerial photographs taken in January 1992 have ...
The site of a Medieval shrunken village at Upper Brailes. Evidence for the shrunken village is visible in some areas as earthworks.
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.
113th century or 14th century stone mortar (half missing) of shelly limestone. Lower Brailes. From bed of Scuttle Brook.
2 No grid reference is given but Scuttle Brook runs to the ...
Findspot - a Medieval stone mortar was found 100m north east of the chapel at Lower Brailes.
1 Find of a fragment of a ring and a spangle in March 1995 at SP314399. The method of recovery was not recorded.
Find of medieval items 500m southeast of Castle Hill Coppice, Brailes.
