1 Excavations of pits, ditches and a subcircular feature. The ditches and other features appear to be Romano British (see PRN 5358), but other features are Mesolithic/Neolithic. To the W ...
Excavation of a settlement uncovered pits, ditches, a subcircular feature, post holes and a possible hearth of Mesolithic/Neolithic date, and an undated burial. A large flint scatter included scrapers, microliths and an arrowhead. The site is 800m west of Stretton on Fosse.
1 Evidence of Medieval occupation on the site of the present village was found in 1975 when foundation trenches for an extension to a house in Church Street were dug. ...
A Medieval shrunken village which has been partially excavated. Situated north east of Stretton on Fosse.
1 Saxon pottery, found in a trial trench, 1969. No further details.
Findspot - Anglo Saxon pottery, dating to the Migration or Early Medieval period were found on the western edge of Stretton on Fosse.
1 An undated isolated grave was found during salvage work in 1970.
2 This should be two isolated graves, few details, no dates.
Two undated isolated graves were found in the area to the west of Sretton on Fosse.
1 Series of about twenty burials with late Iron Age pottery, dug 1949; pair of bronze bracelets on wrists of one inhumation. The Iron Age metalwork of greatest interest is ...
A cemetery containing burials of Late Iron Age and Roman date. The site is located south of Stretton on Fosse.
1 A stone coffin with a skull nearby, possibly Roman in date, were recorded in 1964-5 during salvage work.
A Roman burial was found south west of Stretton on Fosse. It comprised a stone coffin and a human skull.
1 ?Fourteen inhumations. ?Roman, excavated during wartime.
2 No further information available.
The remains of a cemetery were excavated. They burials were of unknown date but may be Roman. The cemetery was situated to the south of Stretton on Fosse.
1 In Rous ‘tres Dishford’ (ie three settlements called Ditchford). One of them was probably near the present Lower Ditchford Farm in a bend of the Paddle Brook, where the ...
The site of the Medieval deserted settlement of Ditchford Frary. The remains of trackways are visible as earthworks. The settlement site is located east of Lower Ditchford.
1 The site of the chapel St Giles at Ditchford Frary deserted Medieval settlement. This church was a chapel of the church of Wolford. It is recorded in 1439. In ...
The site of a Medieval chapel for which there is documentary and earthwork evidence. It was situated east of Lower Ditchford. The chapel would have served the Medieval deserted settlement of Ditchford Frary.
1 Silver groat of Henry VI minted at Calais c1426, found in allotments about 1938. Coin inspected by JMM; it had been identified by the British Museum.
2 Noted by Ordnance ...
Findspot - a Medieval silver coin was found south east of Stretton on Fosse.
1 Ditch. ?Medieval moated enclosure.
2 This feature is a hollow way with a branch to the N. Its course continues the line of an existing road and obviously represents a ...
A Medieval hollow way which is situated south west of Stretton on Fosse.
Remains of a Medieval cross. Out of situ.
1 At the above grid reference is the large socket-stone of what was probably the village cross. Its present situation is obviously temporary ...
A large socket stone for a Medieval village cross. No other parts of the cross survive, and it has been moved from its original site. Its present position is north east of the Medieval deserted settlement of Ditchford Frary.
1 Chancel with S vestry, nave (15.2m long), and a W porch and bell-turret.
2 1841 by Thomas Johnson. Aisleless, with a thin W tower with octagonal top and spire. Hammerbeam ...
The Parish Church of St Peter which was built during the Imperial period and which replaced a Medieval church. The church is located to the east of Stretton on Fosse.
1 Axe (24/c; actinolite schist, ?Cornwall). Found in field E of Starveall Farm. In private possession.
2 The axe was retained by the landowner who has since left the district.
3 Noted ...
Findspot - a Neolithic stone axe was found to the north of Stretton on Fosse.
Find of a Bronze Age axe.
1 Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe, three ribs. In a private collection.
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1 A small undated area of pebbles was recorded during a watching brief at Elmdean, Campden Road, Stretton-on-Fosse. The feature was only partially exposed and may have formed part of ...
A small, undated area of pebbles was recorded during a watching brief at Elmdean, Campden Road, Stretton-on-Fosse.
1 A copper alloy thimble, probably an 18th or 19th century loss, was recovered from the topsoil during a watching brief at Elmdean, Campden Road, Stretton-on-Fosse.
A copper alloy thimble, probably lost during the 18th or 19th century, found during a watching brief at Elmdean, Campden Road, Stretton-on-Fosse.
1 Finds of post medieval items. No proper grid reference given. Method of recovery unrecorded.
2 A further find. A grid reference of SP236375 given. Method of recovery unrecorded.
Finds of post medieval items near Ditchford Frary
1 Excavation of a complex of features (see PRN 3000, PRN 5359) produced evidence of two ditches which joined at a right angle. They were probably boundary or drainage ditches. ...
The excavation of two Roman ditches, in which many fragments of pottery were found. They ditches may have been boundary or drainage ditches. The pottery dated to the 1st and 2nd centuries. The site was located to the south of Cottage Farm, Stretton on Fosse..
1 Excavation of a complex of features (see PRN 3000, PRN 5358) one of which was a pit which contained fragments of a male skeleton. In addition a grave was ...
During an excavation a Mesolithic or Neolithic pit was discovered. It contained a human burial of an adult male. The burial of a child was found nearby but could not be dated. The site was located south of Cottage Farm, Stretton on Fosse..
