1 Flint, struck flake with traces of retouch to one edge, perhaps a broken scraper. Neolithic, 4,000-2,000BC.
Findspot - Neolithic struck flint was found 200m North West of Copston Magna.
1 This area of Roman Settlement centred on High Cross is scheduled under Leicestershire (no 136), but the scheduled area covers parts of the parishes of Wibtoft and Copston Magna.
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The site of the Roman Settlement of Venonae. There are currently no remains visible above ground but fragments of Roman pottery, tile and bone have been found at the site. It is situated at High Cross.
12 Large ring ditch shows on aerial photographs. The ring ditch appears to be about 60m across and, as this is rather large for a burial monument, may be a ...
A ring ditch is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The site is located 500m north west of High Cross.
1 Copston Magna. Neolithic axe (14/c). From field between Copston Magna and High Cross. Not sliced. Private collection. SP4589.
2 The grid reference given by Thomas is in Wolvey parish and ...
Findspot - a Neolithic axe was found in the area between Copston Magna and High Cross.
1 One pebble mace head from High Cross.
2 Dating confirmed as Mesolithic.
Findspot - a macehead dating to the Mesolithic period was found in the area of High Cross.
2 Small undated sub-rectangular enclosure shows on aerial photographs.
3 Site 139 in survey.
An enclosure of unknown date is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The site is located 300m north east of Copston Magna.
1 On a number of aerial photographs, a couple of fields under pasture (centred on the above NGR) show definite earthworks, which may represent the remains of a moated site ...
A possible Medieval moat, a wide ditch usually surrounding a building. Originally identified from aerial photographs, the site has now been destroyed by ploughing, although traces of earthworks still remain. The site is located 300m nortth east of Copston Magna.
2 Probable Neolithic/Bronze Age ring ditch shows on aerial photographs.
3 The size of this ring ditch suggests that it dates from the neolithic. A henge is unlikely in Warwickshire.
The site of a ring ditch of Neolithic or Bronze Age date. It is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The ring ditch is situated 800m south west of Wigston Parva.
1 While deep ploughing area of boggy land to re-sow with grass found Romano British pottery – mortarium fragments etc.
2 This area is now used for fruit growing.
3 Finds include ...
Findspot - fragments of Roman tile and pottery were found 400m north east of Copston Magna.
1 Reference to three lots of Roman coins found ‘in the vicinity of Venonae’ in about 1900. A denarius of Mark Antony (c40-30 BC), various coins of Roman Imperial period ...
Findspot - various Roman coins were found in the area of High Cross.
2 Possible Neolithic/Bronze Age ring ditch shows on aerial photograph.
The site of a possible ring ditch of Neolithic or Bronze Age date. It is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The site is located 300m east of Copston Magna.
1 Four Roman items described as found in Copston Magna in Spring 1997. The grid reference given was SP435886 which is actually in Wolvey. The method of recovery was unrecorded.
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Roman items found in Copston Magna. The exact location is unknown.
1 Four medieval items described as having been found in Spring 1997 in Copston Magna, but the grid reference given is actually in Wolvey.
2 Find of a medieval penny and ...
Find of medieval items in Copston Magna. The exact location is unknown.
1 Find of a medieval coin in 1992. The grid reference given was SP455877, but the method of recovery was not recorded.
Find of a medieval coin in Copston Magna, 200m southwest of Copston Spinney.
1 Some of the tile in the area of the possible Roman building (PRN 4862) appears to be Roman and comb decorated sherds occur. A single grey ware sherd was ...
Findspot - various finds of Roman date, including fragments of pottery, tile and tessera, were found in the north west area of Copston Magna.
1 While deep ploughing area of boggy land to re-sow with grass Medieval pottery was found.
2 The area is now used for fruit growing.
3 Finds include two Medieval green-glazed ware ...
Findspot - Medieval pottery was found in the area to the south of Copston Spinney.
2 Possible undated linear cropmarks show on aerial photographs.
Several linear features of unknown date are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The features are situated 400m south east of Copston Magna.
2 Possible enclosure shows on aerial photographs.
The site of an enclosure of unknown date. It is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The enclosure is situated 600m north east of Copston Magn.
1 A group of pits, which were too shallow to have been for storage purposes, were excavated. The majority contained domestic materials including pottery, querns, cremated animal bone, charcoal, crop ...
A group of Iron Age pits. Domestic materials were deposited in them, including pottery, querns and crop processing waste.
1 Roman pottery found 600m NW of Venonae in ploughed land in April 1978. Sherd scatter included Samian, mortaria, amphorae and grey wares over area 50m by 50m. Further observations ...
Findspot - fragments of Roman pottery were found 700m north west of High Cross.
1 Roman site found 630m S of Venonae in ploughed land by D Wassell in 1976-8. A scatter of sherds (including Samian, black, grey, Castor, rusticated, colour-coated, buff coarse, white ...
Findspot - various Roman finds, including fragments of pottery, tile and bone, were found 500m north west of High Cross.
1 Pits and gullies showed evidence for a limited amount of Iron Age activity.
2Topsoil stripping north of a quarry centered on SP46558890 revealed a small group of pits containing heat-cracked ...
A small group of pits and gullies contained evidence of Iron Age activity. The site is 1.3m northwest of Copston Magna.
1 At Copston Magna an ovoid outer boundary contains fairly regular plots, including the church, which front onto a main street. The plan of Copston Magna seems to be ...
The Medieval village of Copston Magna was a small, planned settlement close to the Danelaw boundary. The layout of the settlement is still partially visible as an earthwork.
1 A fieldwalking survey prior to gravel extraction found evidence of occupation at all levels of prehistory. However the density of the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age flint tools ...
Findspot - various finds of Prehistoric date, including flint artefacts and fragment of pottery, were found in the area of High Cross.