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 Hook fastener, copper alloy. Elongated triangular shape, two rivet holes, undecorated. Anglo-Saxon, ?6th Century. L. 28mm, w. 11mm. 8th Century copper alloy strap end.
Findspot - two Anglo Saxon dress fastenings from the Migration Period were found in Brailes.
1 No structural remains for sheep wash although there is an excavated leat for seep. There is a very large deep ditch but no trace of stone work. Identified by ...
The site of a ruined sheep wash of unknown date. The site is 60m south west of Fisher's Coppice, Brailes.
1 Undated ditch recorded during the excavation of a trial trench prior to the erection of a new detached dwelling. No further evidence of the ditch or other archaeological ...
Undated ditch recorded during the excavation of a trial trench. The site is located at Pleasant View, Upper 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 Find of a 3d token from the 19th century in Brailes. No grid reference or location given and method of recovery unrecorded.
Find of a token from the Imperial period in Brailes
1 Find of Roman items at SP30653930 in 1995. The method of recovery was not recorded.
Find of Roman items to the east of Henbrook Lane, Upper Brailes.
1 Roman occupation debris found in 1995 at SP29404002. The method of recovery was unrecorded. The finds included box flue tiles, a roofing tile, potsherds from vessels, two brooches, a ...
Evidence of Roman occupation, possibly a high status villa, from finds made in Brailes, north of Ashen Coppice.
1 Find of two Roman coins, a nail cleaner and a brooch in 1995 at SP32574200. The method of recovery was not recorded. There is a possible Roman settlement site ...
Find of Roman items to the west of Compton Wynyates
1 1967: After discovery of an area of Roman pot/tile scatter (PRN 2318) test holes were dug and eventually a stone floor was discovered at a depth of 0.5m. The ...
Duplicate of 2318.
1 Investigation of a Roman settlement led to the banks of the stream where erosion provided fresh evidence in the form of two coins and pottery. A trial trench was ...
The possible site of a Roman settlement. Roman pottery, coins, brooches and animal bone was found as well as a rough cobble floor surfaces. The site was located 500m north of Lower Brailes on Sutton Brook.
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.
2 ...
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 Field recently ploughed but now down to grass. Two Roman sherds found.
Findspot - two fragments of Roman pottery were found 400m south west of Compton Wynyates.
1 ?Neolithic flint cores and blades were among the material recovered from around Highwall Spinney, Brailes Hill, after reports of flint finds from the farmer.
2 A quantity of other flint ...
Findspot - flint objects dating to the Neolithic period found 400m north east of Cawley's Covert.
1 Flint ‘knife’ found by a farmer of Brailes near Fisher’s Coppice. The finder reported that the site is surrounded profusely by flint chippings.
2 Dating extended to between the Mesolithic ...
Findspot - a flint knife of Mesolithic/Bronze Age date was found 400m south east of Fisher's Coppice.
1 A turnpike road established from 1781.
The route of a toll road during the Imperial period running between Banbury and Barcheston via Brailes.
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) Geophysical survey (magnetometry) by ArchaeoPhysica Ltd has recorded evidence for at least two phases of settlement at this location. Features identified include round huts (including possible evidence for internal ...
Geophysical survey has recorded evidence for at least two phases of settlement at this location. A large number of finds recovered from this area through metal detecting and fieldwalking suggest that this settlement dates to the Bronze Age/Early Iron Age periods. The quantities of finds recovered also suggests the presence of a midden site. This site lies 500m west of Upper Chelmscote.
1 2 A possible ditch, containing a fragment of probable saddle quern and Neolithic rejuvenation flake, was recorded during observation on a site in Upper Brailes. These finds may be ...
A possible ditch, containing a fragment of probable saddle quern and Neolithic rejuvenation flake, was recorded during observation on a site in Upper Brailes. These finds may be residual, but they do show prehistoric activity in the vicinity.
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.
