2 Ridge and furrow cultivation transcribed from air photographs.
Medieval and later ridge and furrow cultivation in Lighthorne Parish. In some areas it is survives as an earthwork. Elsewhere it is visible on aerial photographs.
2 Circular mark on aerial photographs probably relates to modern agriculture.
The site of an enclosure which is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It is of unknown date but may possibly be a modern feature. It is located 600m east of Moreton Morrell.
1 Suggestions of a long barrow. No further information.
2 This is dubious and requires a site visit.
The site of a possible long barrow of Neolithic date. It is located 300m south of Lighthorne.
2 Enclosures and linear features show on air photographs.
3 The site occupies an elevated position on a ridge of lias with clay capping. Finds have been collected from the field ...
The site of a Roman villa. Various finds, including fragments of tile, bone, pottery and part of a whetstone, have been found at the site. Enclosures and boundaries are visible as earthworks. The site lies 500m south west of Chesterton Wood.
1 A quantity of Roman pottery was collected (mainly 2nd and 3rd century) during field survey. A bronze brooch was also found.
Findspot - fragments of Roman pottery and a brooch were found during a survey of the area 800m north west of the church at Lighthorne.
1 A gentleman remembered digging up old skeletons in a field called ‘Old Borough’. This field is fairly flat with a sharp fall to a ditch. Nine skeletons were ...
The site of a cemetery of unknown date. A number of skeletons were found when quarrying was taking place. The cemetery site was located 400m south of the church at Lighthorne.
1 Immediately after passing Chesterton Wood on the road from Warwick to Banbury, some remains of a Roman camp may by traced in a field on the left. Coins are ...
Findspot - several Roman coins have been found to the east of Chesterton Wood over the years.
1 Museum donation – ‘Roman antiquities from Lighthorne’.
2 Four bronze fibula, two bronze rings, one bronze pin, one piece of bronze.
Findspot - Roman brooches, pins and rings, all made of bronze, were found in the area of Lighthorne.
1 The possible extent of Medieval settlement, based on the first edition 6″ map of 1886, 45NE.
2 The ridge and furrow plotting of the parish shows patchy survival
3 Lighthorne is ...
The possible extent of Medieval settlement of Lighthorne. The area of settlement is suggested by documentary evidence and the remains of ridge and furrow cultivation.
1 c1870: On the formation of the Warwick-Banbury road through Chesterton Wood three male skeletons were found about 0.76m below the surface. They were all laid with their feet to ...
Three human burials of unknown date were found on the south west edge of Chesterton Wood. The skeletons were all male and all had their feet pointing to the east.
1 Civil War hoard 1642-49. SP342558. Half crowns, shillings and sixpences – England, Scotland and Ireland. Edward VI to Charles 1: 1551-1645/6. Their value in 1645 would have been £4 ...
Findspot - a hoard of silver coins, all dating to the Post Medieval period, were found in Old School Lane, Lighthorne.
1 Very little remains. Would appear to have been a square socket stone, but impossible to state with any degree of certainty details of shaft. The whole ...
The remains of a Medieval cross. Only the socket stone and a small part of the shaft survive. It is situated in the churchyard of St Lawrence's Church, Lighthorne.
1 A gentleman of Little Wolford, found c1950 an As., Severus Alexander, 222-235, in a field at SP3356. The coin is still in his possession.
2 Mentions the find of ...
Findspot - a Roman coin, of the Emperor Severus Alexander, was found on the west side of Lighthorne.
1 In Mill Field, near the Rectory, some curious Roman and Druidical antiquities have been found. Skeletons, coins and beads have been found in various parts of the parish.
2 A ...
The possible site of an Anglo Saxon cemetery, dating to the Migration or Early Medieval period. Two skeletons, one of a woman and one a child, were found to the north of the church at Lighthorne.