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 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.
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 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..
1 To the E of the quarry several features were observed. The majority were probably Roman (PRN 1836), although one pit (F165) may have been Mesolithic or Neolithic, since a ...
Excavation of this Mesolithic/Neolithic pit uncovered a number of flint artefacts. The site is 400m south west of the church at Stretton on Fosse.
1 Trial trenching in Cherry Orchard produced an occupation layer from which roofing and box flue tile was obtained with large quantities of Roman pottery and evidence of a substantial ...
The possible site of a Roman settlement which was found during trial trenching. The site is located on the western outskirts of Stretton on Fosse.
1 A N-S ditch (F79) when excavated produced several flint blades and flakes and a discoidal scraper which seem to be Neolithic or Bronze Age.
During the excavation of a ditch, Neolithic and Bronze Age flint artefacts were found. The ditch was situated 500m west of Stretton on Fosse.
1 A group of large post holes indicated the presence of a large circular structure (F38), which had, unfortunately, been cut by a recent machine trench on its W side. ...
The site of a possible Iron Age round house. A circle of post holes was found during an excavation as well as Iron Age pottery. The site is located 500m west of Stretton on Fosse.
1 To the E of the quarry several features were observed. These were Roman (PRN 1839) and Mesolithic/Neolithic (PRN 6056). Sherds of shell-tempered handmade pottery may indicate other pre-Roman activity ...
Findspot - fragments of Iron Age pottery were found 300m south west of Stretton on Fosse.
1 A standing stone – ‘short stone’, is marked on a map of Archaeology and Field Names in Stretton. The source of this information does not appear to be specified. ...
The site of an undated standing stone, (short stone). It was situated south west of Stretton on Fosse.
1 The large Saxon cemetery, WA1832, post-dated traces of a settlement site. These comprised two sides of a post-built structure, a trapezoidal enclosure and two linear ditches which ran ...
A Roman or Saxon settlement discovered during an excavation. An enclosure, ditches and post holes were among the features that were discovered. The settlement was disturbed by Medieval quarrying. The site is located 450m west of Stretton on Fosse.
