1 Undated linear located by geophysical survey (resistivity and magnetometry), undertaken in order to locate a former walled enclosure in the area of a proposed new car park.
Undated linear located by geophysical survey undertaken in order to locate a former walled enclosure in the area of a proposed new car park. The site is immediately north of the Abbeygate, Coombe Abbey.
1 A 14th century ditch or gully from the monastic phase of the sites use was identified during trial trenching prior to the proposed extension of the hotel. Its ...
A 14th century ditch or gully from the monastic phase of the sites use was identified during trial trenching. Its function was not known but it may have been a drain. The site lay west of the Abbeygate buildings at Coombe Abbey.
1 The surviving earthwork is the village pond, now dry, and its dam.
2 Plan.
3 Scheduled as Warwickshire Monument No 111.
4 Scheduling information.
A Medieval dam and fishpond used for the breeding and storage of fish. They are visible as earthworks and on aerial photographs, and are situated south of Mobbs Wood, Combe Fields.
1 A small round mound, which has recently been disturbed by a tree being uprooted in its centre. No surface indications of date or function.
2 This mound is similar ...
The possible site of a Post Medieval gazebo is marked by mound of earth. Alternatively, this might be the remains of a round barrow. It is situated 200m south of Combe Abbey.
1 Cropmarks of three sides of a rectilinear enclosure. Former field boundaries and ploughed out ridge and furrow can also be seen but the possible enclosure is on a ...
On the 2010 google earth map three sides of a rectangular enclosure with a possible ring ditch to the north-west is visible. Other linear features are also visible along with ploughed out ridge and furrow.
1 2 The Walled Garden at Combe Abbey forms part of the Grade II* listed Registered Garden. The garden was created as part of Lancelot’ Capability’ Brown’s reorganisation of the ...
18th Century Walled Garden.
1 An east-west aligned ditch was recorded during observation for a car park extension at Coombe Abbey. It yielded a single sherd of late 13th to early 14th century pottery.
An east-west aligned ditch was recorded during observation for a car park extension at Coombe Abbey. It yielded a single sherd of late 13th to early 14th century pottery.
Earthworks of moat.
1 Nesfield conducted work at Combe Abbey in the 1860s. The most attractive feature of his work was the moat which he constructed to the S and E ...
A moat, a wide ditch usually surrounding a building, at Combe Abbey. It dates to the Imperial period and survives as an earthwork.
1 Linear bank marked.
2 This may be a dam.
The site of a possible Medieval dam which is visible as an earthwork. It is situated 200m north of New Close Wood.
1 Two small bronze heads, cast hollow and filled with lead, presumably part of a steelyard, found at Peter Hall near Combe Abbey and now in Rugby School Museum. Listed ...
Findspot - two bronze heads of Roman date were found in the area of Combe Fields.
1 Some years ago, in grubbing up the roots of a tree near Combe Abbey, some fragments of Samian were found. On the largest fragment was impressed – ‘DIVIX’.
2 Found ...
Findspot - fragments of Roman pottery were found to the north of Binley Woods.
1 Fetterlock was found in the vicinity of Combe Abbey and may date to before the suppression of that monastery, possibly the 15th century.
2 Iron lock from near Combe Abbey. ...
Findspot - a Medieval iron lock was found to the north of Binley Woods.
1 Several decorated tiles from Combe Abbey are in the Bloxam collection. These include four tiles with varying decorative motifs. Catalogued as A1663, A1674-5, A1681.
Findspot - a number of decorated tiles of Medieval date were found at Combe Abbey.
1 Tumulus.
2 Small tumulus about 1.2m high in grassland of deerpark. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument.
3 The mound may actually be the remains of a gazebo associated with the ...
The site of a mound. It may possibly be Bronze Age round barrow, a mound of earth built to conceal a burial. It is situated 300m south west of Combe Abbey.
1 Dugdale records the depopulation of Upper and Lower Smite during the foundation of Combe Abbey in 1150. The old parish name is preserved in Smite Brook, Smeeton Lane and ...
The site of the Medieval deserted settlement of Upper Smite. The settlement is known to have existed from documentary evidence. Some traces of it are visible as an earthwork and as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The site is located 100m south of Mobbs Wood.
2 Linear marks showing on aerial photographs are probably not of archaeological origin.
3 These features appear to be the same as those mapped by the National Mapping Programme (see MWA12386).
Several linear features of unknown date are visible on aerial photographs. They are situated 500m north west of Birchley Wood.
1 The field is known as “Marlpit Close” on a 19th century map.
2 There were no traces of quarrying nor did the owner of the field have any memory of ...
The possible site of a marl pit dating to at least the Imperial period is suggested by documentary evidence. Evidence of ridge and furrow cultivation also exists in this area and survives as earthworks. These features are situated 500m north of Walsgrave Hill.
1 Cistercian Abbey of Combe was founded in 1150 by Richard De Camvill and was surrendered on the 21st January 1539.
2 Combe Abbey occupies the site and includes a few ...
Combe Abbey, a Cistercian Abbey that was founded during the Medieval period. Remains of the cloisters survive in the walls of a later building. The abbey is situated 1km north west of Birchley Wood.
1 Small round mound which has recently been disturbed by a tree being uprooted in its centre. Nothing visible to indicate its date or function.
2 As with Combe Abbey ...
The site of a possible Bronze Age round barrow, a mound of earth built to conceal a burial. Alternatively, it might be a mound on which a gazebo stood. It is situated 300m south west of Combe Abbey.
1 A well-defined subrectangular enclosure is said to be visible on aerial photographs taken in 1959.
2 These photographs have not been traced.
3 Vertical air photograph taken in 1980.
4 Vertical air ...
The site of an enclosure of unknown date is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The enclosure is situated 800m north east of Coombe Countryside Park.
1 A small round mound with no surface indication of date or function.
2 This is similar to Combe Abbey ‘Tumulus’ (PRN 3723) and is more likely to represent a Post ...
The site of a possible Bronze Age round barrow, a mound of earth built to conceal a burial. Alternatively, it might be a mound on which a gazebo stood. It is situated 300m south of Combe Abbey.
1 Upper and Lower Smite may be Warwickshire’s oldest lost villages. The foundation of Coombe Abbey in 1150 created pasture where formerly two villages had stood. The old parish name ...
The Medieval deserted settlement of Lower Smite. The settlement is known to have existed from documentary evidence. It was situated 800m north east of Coombe Countryside Park.
2 Undated linear features show on air photographs. These features are probably geological.
Linear features of unknown date are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. They are situated 1km north east of Combe Abbey.
1 2 Ridge and furrow ploughing can be seen on arial photographs in four fields adjacent to the B4027 road near Coombe Abbey Country Park.
Ridge and furrow ploughing can be seen on arial photographs adjacent to the B4027 road near Coombe Abbey Country Park.