Site of possible cemetery.
1 Sir William Dugdale, in a letter to Mr Anthony Wood dated 23rd August, 1677, brought to his notice a very recent discovery reported by a late ...
Circumstantial
1 A little close adjoining the farmhouse on the N, and containing about 1.25 ha, the surface of which is very irregular, excavations for gravel having been made intermittently over ...
The site of a Roman settlement. The settlement may include a cemetery. A burial was found during an excavation. The boundary of the north west corner of the settlement is marked by a bank visible as an earthwork. The site is located 1km south west of Shawell.
1 1934: Human remains found in a gravel pit. At the time when Wellstood made his notes 64 skeletons had been discovered in an area roughly 41m by 46m. Most ...
The site of an Anglo Saxon burial site. Archaeological work has uncovered skeletons, cremation burials and hearths. The grave goods included jewellery, vessels and weapons. The cemetery was located to the north east of Alveston Manor Hotel.
1 About half a mile S of Upper Brailes is a place called Radnall Bush, where indications of early settlement are apparent. Here skeletons have been dug up, and the ...
The possible site of a settlement of unknown date suggested by earthworks. Burials have also been found at the site, suggesting the presence of a cemetery. The site is located at Cawley's Covert.
1 The skeletal material represented at least four indiviuals which had been buried on a low knoll at the top of the ridge. The results of studying the bones ...
A low knoll on top of ridge remains uncertain if it is entirely natural, there is a distinct possiblity that it was an older burial mound. Human remains of a near full skeleton and three partials were discovered.
1 At the foot of Edge Hill the first battle of the Civil War was fought in 1642 (PRN 1198) and a mound on the hillside still marks the common ...
A mound at the foot of Edge Hill, just outside Radway, is reputed to be a cemetery where dead soldiers from the Battle of Edge Hill were buried in the 17th century. The mound survives as an earthwork.
1 Site threatened by gravel extraction and excavated by CADAS from 1965-70. A Late Bronze Age cremation cemetery and enclosure were discovered, overlain by an Iron Age settlement (PRN 5510). ...
The remains of a Bronze Age cremation cemetery and an enclosure were found during an excavation. The remains were found 600m east of Bubbenhall.
1 During observation of foundations trenches two ditches and a pit were recorded. One residual human bone fragment, one of animal bone and a piece of 2nd/4th century pottery were ...
Two Roman ditches and a pit, containing two bone fragments and a piece of 2nd/4th century pottery, were found during archaeological work. Previous work on the site had recorded 1st-4th century settlement activity, with ditches, interpreted as property boundaries, layers, pits and a possible gravel pit.
1 At the foot of Edge Hill the first battle of the Civil War was fought in 1642 and a mound on the hillside still marks the common grave of ...
The site of a mound, supposedly under which 500 or more dead soldiers from the Battle of Edge Hill were buried in the Post Medieval period. The site is located at Graveground Coppice.
1 An area containing numerous large ditches and pits, together with burials. Several boundary or enclosure ditches were excavated, including F2 which was a palisade ditch. F4 enclosed a large ...
Enclosures, ditches, pits, human burials were found during an archaeological excavation. Pottery and metal work were found in large quantities. Roman artefacts date back to the 1st century. The site was located south of Cottage Farm, near Stretton on Fosse.