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 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 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 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 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.
1 At a height of nearly 152m in the village of Upper Brailes, is a detached artificial mount, surrounded by entrenchments, called ‘Castle Hill’. The site is commanding. The present ...
Castle Hill, a Medieval motte and bailey castle. The remains of the castle motte are visible as an earthwork. The site is located 200m west of Castle Hill Lane, Upper Brailes.
1 A survey of 1279 mentions a park and a warren. The coney warren was included in a lease of the manor house and demesnes made to William Raynsford in ...
The site of a Medieval rabbit warren, used for breeding rabbits. The remains of the warren are visible as earthworks. The site is located 1.5km east of Winderton.
1 A hamlet in Brailes parish. Rous lists it, and there appear to have been a number of successive partial enclosures. These are recorded in 1430, 1509, 1549 and 1598. ...
The Medieval deserted settlement of Chelmscote. Hollow ways, house platforms and enclosures are visible as earthworks. The site is located 1km north west of Compton Wynyates.
1 Brailes was a village whose fields lay open in the traditional Midland pattern until William Brown was granted, in 1485, the offices of bailiff of the lordship and keeper ...
The site of the Medieval shrunken village of Lower Brailes. The site is visible as an earthwork. It is situated 300m south of the church at Lower Brailes.
1 A late 15 century or early 16 century dagger found in clearing out a ditch at Brailes, not far from Compton Wynyates House.
3 11th century stirrup mount, copper alloy, ...
Findspot - a Medieval dagger and a stirrup mount were found in the area north of Winderton.
1 Linear earthworks marking out plots show on aerial photographs. This may mark out an area of shrunken Medieval settlement at Brailes.
2 Additional aerial photographs taken in January 1992 have ...
The site of a Medieval shrunken village at Upper Brailes. Evidence for the shrunken village is visible in some areas as earthworks.
113th century or 14th century stone mortar (half missing) of shelly limestone. Lower Brailes. From bed of Scuttle Brook.
2 No grid reference is given but Scuttle Brook runs to the ...
Findspot - a Medieval stone mortar was found 100m north east of the chapel at Lower Brailes.
1 Find of a fragment of a ring and a spangle in March 1995 at SP314399. The method of recovery was not recorded.
Find of medieval items 500m southeast of Castle Hill Coppice, Brailes.
1 Portable Antiquities Scheme find provenance information:
Date found: 2003-02-28T00:00:00Z
Date found: 2002-10-24T23:00:00Z
Date found: 2001-02-10T00:00:00Z
Methods of discovery: Metal detector
Mediaeval metal detector finds in the area to the South West of MWA2311 The Castle, Castle Hill, Upper Brailes and largely within MWA6436 Ridge and Furrow Cultivation in Brailes Parish
1 Portable Antiquities Scheme find provenance information:
Date found: 2002-07-27T23:00:00Z
Methods of discovery: Chance find during metal detecting
Date found: 2002-10-10T23:00:00Z
Methods of discovery: Metal detector
Mediaeval metal detector find scatter over the area North of The Grange, Brailes within MWA6436 Ridge and Furrow Cultivation in Brailes Parish
3 Ridge and furrow cultivation transcribed from air photographs.
The remains of Medieval or later ridge and furrow cultivation in the parish of Brailes, some of which survives as an earthwork. In other areas it is visible on aerial photographs.
3 Earthwork remains of the shrunken settlement of Winderton show on air photographs. These have been plotted on the ridge and furrow plot for Brailes Parish (PRN 6436).
4 Site ...
The site of a deserted settlement of Medieval date are visible as earthworks. The site is located at Winderton.
1 The OAU excavated two trenches on land adjacent to Grove End House, and found three sherds of Medieval pottery, consistent with Medieval occupation in the area but not necessarily ...
Findspot - three fragments of Medieval pottery were found during archaeological work west of Henbrook Lane, Upper Brailes.
1 Finds made in 1993 with a metal detector: 14th century strap end, 12th century, 13th century or 14th century oval frame buckle and a triangular bronze object, possibly a ...
Findspot - various finds of Medieval and Post Medieval date, including buckles, a strap end and a trade token, were found 500m north of the church at Lower Brailes.
1 ‘Tumulus’ marked.
2 Case was told that the barrow could still be traced but had not visited the site.
4 Beesley records that a small circle of stones was ploughed up ...
The possible site of gallows, a wooden structure from which criminals were hanged during the Medieval and later periods. Documentary evidence suggests that there was a mound, possibly on which the gallows were situated. The site is located 200m east of Gallows Hill.