2 Two probable ring ditches of Neolithic/Bronze Age date show on air photographs.
Two Prehistoric ring ditches are visible as crop marks on aerial photographs. They are located 300m west of Caldecote Hall.
1 Perfect leaf-shaped arrowhead of pale grey-brown flint. Found ‘N of the isolation hospital, on the S side of the railway’.
2 Old SMR Card.
3 Neolithic date confirmed.
Findspot - a leaf-shaped flint arrowhead of Neolithic date was found 700m north west of White House.
2 Possible linear crop mark of dubious significance. On an earlier SMR card this was identified incorrectly as part of a moated site.
A linear feature of unknown date that is visible as a crop mark on aerial photographs. It is situated 200m north east of Woodford Bridge.
1 Visible as a crop mark on aerial photographs.
2 An ‘L’-shaped crop mark is probably part of a wide-ditched rectangular enclosure. An entrance is visible in the NE corner. A ...
The site of an enclosure of unknown date which is visible as a crop mark on aerial photographs. It is situated 300m east of Woodford Lodge.
2 A pit alignment, associated with linear features and an enclosure, shows on air photographs.
3 Dating to late Bronze Age to late Iron Age.
A pit alignment of Prehistoric date is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It is situated 500m south east of Woodford Lodge.
2 Traces of a ditch defining a rectangular or subrectangular enclosure by the side of the Coventry Canal. An external ditch suggesting a double ditched enclosure appears to occur.
A subrectangular double-ditched enclosure of unknown date. It is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs and is situated 200m north west of Spring Wood.
1 The probable extent of medieval settlement based on the OS first edition of 1888, 10NE.
2 Listed in Domesday under Coleshill Hundred. The Phillimore edition gives a grid ref of ...
The probable extent of the medieval settlement at Hartshill based on the Ordnance Survey map of 1888.
1 On the N part of the fort ‘diverse flint stones’, about 10cm in length and polished have been found during ploughing.
3 Dugdale’s implement was a Neolithic flint or stone ...
Findspot - several flint axes were found within Oldbury Camp, 100m north of Oldbury.
1 One year after destroying a possible barrow (PRN 251), on ploughing the area a cottager from Hartshill found a stone axe.
2 A perforated axe made of blue stone and ...
Findspot - a stone axe of Neolithic or Bronze Age date was found in the area of Hartshill.
1 A collection of Neolithic flint comprising arrowheads, end scrapers, blade fragment, knives, flakes and a core found at this location.
2 Dating confirmed as Neolithic.
Findspot - a flint scatter, comprising various flint artefacts dating from the Neolithic period, was found 300m south east of Oldbury Camp.
1 A hole was opened in the E side of the barrow and about 0.62m down an Anglo-Saxon burial with an iron spear head and corroded iron shield boss were ...
The site of an Anglo Saxon burial dating to the Migration period. Several finds associated with the burial were recovered. The burial was situated 100m south east of Oldbury Camp.
1 A ‘flint assemblage with scrapers’ is recorded from this location.
A scatter of flint implements of Prehistoric date were found 300m south of Hartshill Hayes Country Park.
1 Surface finds of Mesolithic material from the vicinity of Oldbury hillfort and round barrow include a number of unretouched blades /flakes, three microliths and one other flint.
Findspot - flint implements of Mesolithic date were found in the area of Oldbury.
1 One Mesolithic unretouched blade/flake from Jee’s Quarry.
2 Dating given as Mesolithic.
Findspot - a flint implement of Early Mesolithic date was found in Jee's Quarry.
1 A Neolithic site was discovered at the above grid reference. On this site blades predominate over flakes (13/9) and of these eleven blades and five flakes show retouch.
2 Confirmed ...
Findspot - flint implements of Neolithic date were found west of Caldecote.
1Quartzite scraper: description and illustration
Quartzite scraper from Caldecote, Hartshill
1 Quartzite point: description and illustration
Quartzite point found near Caldecote Field, Hartshill
1 Quartzite Core, possibly prepared: description and illustration
Quartzite core, possibly prepared found near Caldecote Field, Hartshill
1 Quartzite chopper core (unifacial): description and illustration
Quartzite chopper-core found near Caldecote Field, Hartshill
1 Quartzite pointed handaxe: description and illustration
Quartzite pointed handaxe found near Caldecote Field, Hartshill
1 2 Hartshill cemetery, Hartshill.
Lovie reports a formal grid plan, originally some landscaping and planting of monkey puzzle trees and rhododendrons; and that the cemetery has been extended east and ...
Formal grid plan, some planting of trees and rhododendrons.
1 Stands in a commanding position. Fortified in the time of Henry I (1100-35) as a motte and bailey castle (PRN 241), possibly by Hugh de Hardreshull. Only the earthworks ...
The remains of Hartshill Castle, which was originally built during the Medieval period. It is situated on the east side of Hartshill Hayes Country Park.
1 In 1835 Mr Hawkes of Birmingham and Bloxam excavated a round barrow near Oldbury. The barrow, before excavation, was of bowl-shaped form, about 3.9m high and 23m ...
The site of a round barrow, an artificial mound built to cover a burial. It dates from the Bronze Age and contained two cremation burials and a later A-S burial (MWA6001). It is on the W side of Harthill Hayes Country Park and survives as an earthwork.
1 Sherds of Medieval pottery found. Also evidence of iron smelting.
Findspot - Medieval pottery was found 200m west of Grange Farm as well as evidence for iron smelting.