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Site of Migration Cemetery 500m E of Baginton Church

1 Burials were found in the course of the working of Hall Pit. The cemetery probably also extends into the Hall grounds and SW of Hall Pit. Most of the ...

The site of a cemetery containing Anglo Saxon cremation burials and inhumations dating to the Migration or Early Medieval periods. Brooches, tweezers, and buckles were amongst the objects found with the burials. The cemetery was situated to the east of Baginton.
Two undated graves from Stretton-on-Fosse Site 9

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.
Iron Age or Roman cemetery

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.
Roman burial

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.
Stoneleigh Abbey Church

1 The S aisle of the conventual church partly survives in the N side of the present house. The semicircular arch at the E end was apparently between the aisle ...

Stoneleigh Abbey Church was built during the Medieval period. The church no longer exists in its own right but parts of if have been incorporated into a house that was on the same site. It is located to the east of the abbey remains.
Site of Poss Long Barrow 300m NE of Berry Field Fm

1 A charter of AD757 records land at Tredington and mentions the ‘Brocnanbyrh’ (Broken Barrow). The evidence suggests that it was on the W boundary, somewhere ENE of Berry Field ...

The possible site of a Neolithic long barrow, an elongated mound of earth which usually conceal human burials. The long barrow was situated to the south east of Crimscote Downs.
Possible Roman burial

1 Romano British site and burial. 2 This was an excavation conducted by Stratford schoolboys which recovered Romano British pot and a burial thought to be Romano British. Reports of slabbed ...

The site of a burial, possibly of Roman date. It was found 150m east of the dimantled tramway.
Site of Saxon Cemetery to SE of Bransford Bridge

1 Saxon burial ground found in 1824 when repairing Watling Street between Bensford (Bransford) Bridge and Pilgrims Lowe (Gibbet Hill). 2 The skeletons were buried on both sides of the road ...

The site of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery dating to the Migration period. Inhumations and one cremation urn were found during an excavation. Brooches and spearheads were amongst the artefacts found. The cemetery was located to the north east of Churchover.
Undated Burial

1 Following dredging of the Noleham Brook in summer 1982 a skeleton was observed and partially excavated by a local resident. The body was orientated E-W and was not accompanied ...

A human burial was found during dredging works on the Noleham Brook. The date of the burial is unknown. It was found 600m west of Long Marston.
Undated burial 600m N of Honnington

2 An almost complete skeleton was found by workmen while digging the foundations for a concrete-floored building in the grounds of Honington Hall in 1972. The skeleton was male, aged ...

The site of an undated human burial, found 600m north of Honington.
Site of Migration Cemetery E of Offchurch

1 Graves discovered in digging gravel at the summit of the hill. Lack of supervision reduced the archaeological value of the discovery. The ordinary shield-boss, knife, spearheads and brooches were ...

The possible site of a cemetery dating to the Migration or Early Medieval period. Two Anglo Saxon burials were discovered in the 1800s. It was located north of Long Itchington.
Migration Period burial NW of Drayton Barn Cottages, Billesley

1 An Anglo-Saxon inhumation was excavated from one of the defunct (Romano-British) corndryers. Analysis of the skeleton is accompanied by a description of the iron grave goods, which include a ...

A Migration period burial was found during excavations of a Romano-British Settlement near Billesley. The site lies m NW of Drayton Barn Cottages.
Possible Long Barrow

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Elizabeth Passes Through Warwick

When we are honoured by a Royal visit nowadays, we await with confidence a punctual arrival by helicopter or Rolls Royce, and there is often a great deal of preparation ...
Excavation of Roman Well at Brown's Spinney

1 A few years before 1857 while digging limestone a limestone cist was discovered. This contained a skeleton with the legs contracted, the skull of which had fallen between the ...

A Roman well was found during an excavation. It contained three cremation urns and a burial. The well was situated in an area to the north west of Little Lawford.
Site of Possible Long Barrow 400m W of Cross Hands

1 Two stones at SP2628, connected by a low ridge and 26 other stones in the hedge, suggested to be a long barrow or other Megalithic site. Now no trace ...

The possible site of an Early Neolithic long barrow was recorded during archaeological fieldwork. The site lay 1.3 km south of Little Compton. It may have been a natural feature such as a limestone outcrop.
Site of Poss Standing Stone 400m SW of Cross Hands

1 A prostrate stone, 2.0m long, 0.7m wide in the middle and 0.6m thick near the base, with many loose stones and nettles growing round it. There appears to be ...

A stone recorded in the 1920s and interpreted as an Early Neolithic long barrow. Alternatively it may have been a Prehistoric standing stone or a natural feature. The site lay 1.4 km south of Little Compton.
Kineton. Hunt
Ryton on Dunsmore. King George VI Visit to Police HQ
Ryton on Dunsmore. King George VI Visit to Police HQ
Shipston on Stour. Floods
Shipston on Stour. Floods
Shipston on Stour. May Day
Shipston on Stour. Ox Roast