2 Possible linear features show on an air photograph.
3 A watching brief on a development site approximately 150m North East of the features removed top soils down to natural clays ...
Linear features of unknown date are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. They are situated west of Welsh Road East, Southam.
When in work, until about ten years ago, Southam Quarry was a fantastic resource for geological investigations. The ‘Blue Lias’ clay and limestone layers were a rich source of fossils, ...
This beautiful specimen from Warwickshire Museum’s collection is part of a natural limestone nodule, collected about twenty years ago from the now-flooded ‘old quarry’ near Southam, formerly owned by Rugby ...
When excavations for the Orbit Homes development in Southam started in 2013, strange foundations were discovered under the former Victor Hodges Home site. Orbit brought in a team of archaeologists ...
1 If all the Holt and Breach field names are plotted on the map, the Holt is seen to have covered an area about two miles long and three quarters ...
The possible site of a wood dating to the Medieval period. It has been plotted using all the 'holt' placenames and is comparable in size to the Domesday entry of Southam wood. It is located in the parishes of Southam, Ladbroke and Napton.
1 In a field known as Mill Pits, the River Itchen makes a sharp loop. The loop has been cut by what appears to be an artificial leet, thus creating ...
This may be the site of the watermill at Southam recorded in the Domesday survey. The mill did not survive the Medieval period, but a possible watercourse is still visible as an earthwork. The site lies 200m north east of Thorpe Bridge.
The brick mill with batter was built about 1807, and was rebuilt after a fire in 1849. It had six storeys, four patent sails, and two sets of stones on ...