1 The excavation of trial trenches at Abbey Works, Bleachfield Street, Alcester recorded a number of features associated with Roman occupation of the site including a hearth with metalworking slag, ...
A road, hearth, metalworking slag, pits, postholes, gullies, beam slots, ditches,a well, and foundations of stone buildings were recorded during evaluation and subsequent excavation at the former Abbey Works, Bleachfield Street, Alcester. Finds included: pottery, amphora, bone, metal objects including jewellery and glass.
1 A brick-built well and wall foundations of 19th century date were recored during archaeoloigicla observation and evaluation work associated with the construction of new houses.
A brick-built well and wall foundations of 19th cenutry date were recorded during archaeological observation and evaluation work at 4-6 Evesham Street, Alcester.
1 To the west of Bleachfield Street. Clay floors with post holes having a 2.1m spacing were found together with dry stone walling. Below this were traces of C1 ...
During an excavation to the west of Bleachfield Street, Alcester, the remains of a Roman building were found.
1 “Further excavation on nearby Allotments found more of a wall discovered in 1958 and the concrete floor found in 1928, all aligned with the known road system.”
2 Listed as ...
More of previously excavated wall and floor discovered in excavation from Bleachfield Street Allotments, Alcester.
1 Coughton, enclosed in 1487. Appears on maps of Saxton and Speed, but has been long disparked.
2 Coughton Park is in the angle of the Ridgeway and ...
Coughton Park, a deer park dating from the Medieval to the Post Medieval period. Much of the park pale is visible as an earthwork. It is located to the south of Sambourne.
Recommended for inclusion on Local List by Lovie.
1 An archaeological evaluation at Acorn House, Evesham Street, Alcester within the southern suburb of the Roman town found extensive, well preserved Roman deposits just below the modern garden soil. ...
An archaeological evaluation at Acorn House, Evesham Street, Alcester within the southern suburb of the Roman town found extensive, well preserved Roman deposits just below the modern garden soil. Pottery analysis suggests that the main occupation phase was mid-1st - early 2nd-century AD.
1 5.7m wide stone Roman foundation of Arden Stone supported on wooden piles (0.12m. diameter) driven into gravel. Part of the 4th century defences. Could be a tower or even ...
Two large sandstone foundations, likely part of the 4th century defences were found below the passage way between 53 and 55 High Street. The larger foundation was built on wooden piles.
1 The site of the ancient manor house of Alcester. In 1340 Giles de Beauchamp obtained a licence to crenellate his manor house here and to surround it ...
The site of a Medieval manor house at Beauchamp Court. The site is known from documentary evidence and some earthworks are still visible. The site lies 200m east of Birmingham Road, King's Coughton.
1 1976: An area of 11m by 17m was excavated in advance of redevelopment. 1m of Post Medieval deposit sealed the site. The latest feature on the site was a ...
The remains of several Medieval buildings were excavated in Bleachfield Street, Alcester. The buildings were indicated by post holes, walls and hearths.
1 Excavation in 1956-8 in the field W of Birch Abbey – a complicated series of post holes, slots and gullies, cut into the levelled natural clay and associated with ...
The remains of post holes and a wall, found during an excavation, suggest that a building existed on this site during the Roman period. A Roman ditch was also found. Finds included pottery and evidence for metal working. The site was located on Chantry Crescent.
1 Several sandstone wall foundations were noted in narrow gas pipe trenches. The location of the walls would not fit with the known medieval street plan and so it ...
Sandstone wall foundations were found in several trenches excavated along Church Street in Alcester during the laying of new gas pipes. They are probably the remains of at least one Romano-British building. A mortar floor surface was also found.
1 A seven course limestone wall was recorded in a culvert trench. Stratigraphic information had been removed by the previous culvert excavations.
2Noted in West Midlands Archaeology.
A seven course Limestone wall was found during archaeological observation of a culvert trench. The feature is undated.
1 Beauchamp Court garden, Alcester.
Lovie reports drive and orchard, and states that house partly demolished 1653; remainder used as farm but has since disappeared.
Drive and orchard.
1 Organic deposits seen across entire site. Contained wood fragments including several pieces up to 1.50m long. In two places several lay together possibly forming a platform. ...
Organic deposits sealed by a layer containing a probable BA flint revealed during salvage excavation. Further deposits were c14 dated to the Mesolithic, suggesting an earlier origin for the marsh, which was reclaimed in the Romano-British period.
1 House built as tower eye-catcher for Ragley Hall in late 18th/ early 19th century, rebuilt and extended c1930. Garden features include stone-walled terraces, steps, lake, rockery, kitchen garden. Reputed ...
Oversley Castle grounds comprise gardens which date from the Imperial period. The gardens are located 500m south west of Oversley Wood and they surround the castle.
1 Fulke Greville is recorded as having enclosed a good deal of Alcester Heath in the mid 16th century. The area shown includes a warren (indicated by ‘coney’ field names) ...
Alcester Heath Park, an area of heathland enclosed by Fulke Greville to form a park and a rabbit warren in the Post Medieval period. The park is known to have existed from documentary evidence. It was situated to the west of King's Coughton.
1 Part of a possible pit was uncovered during observation of grounds works for a new teaching block at Alcester Grammar School. A sherd of medieval pottery was recovered ...
Evidence for medieval activity, including a pit, the probable remains of a medieval timber structure overlain by a yard surface and 12th/13th century pottery, recorded during fieldwork at Alcester Grammar School, Birmingham Road, Alcester.
1 During a watching brief a wall line was revealed. It was parallel to the street frontage, possibly indicating a medieval date, however the lack of medieval finds could suggest ...
A wall line was exposed during a watching brief at Priory Road, Alcester. The wall is undated, but probably Roman or medieval.
1 Archaeological observation of sixteen geological test pits on land to the north of Cold Comfort Lane, Alcester revealed no significant archaeological remains. Two walls were encountered and would ...
Two walls were found during archaeological work in Cold Comfort Lane, Alcester. The walls date to the Imperial period. They are the remains of buildings that are marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886.
1 Line of rubble indicates a former brick wall aligned NE-SW across the site to the rear. Bricks are hand-made and thought to be C17-C18th in date. A ...
An area of brick rubble marking the line of a former wall of 17th/18th century date and a large number of finds of post-medieval pottery were noted during archaeological observation to the rear of Arrow House, Church Street, Alcester.
1 Archaeological observation of a foundation trench uncovered slight building foundations and a quantitiy of 12th/13th century pottery. The building foundation was probably associated with an outbuilding fronting on ...
The remains of wall foundations and pottery of Medieval date were found during archaeological work in Bleachfield Street, Alcester.
1 A deerpark made during the reign of Henry VIII.
2 The deerpark was bounded to the west and south by the parish boundary and to the north by Alcester Heath ...
The site of a Post Medieval deer park where deer were kept for hunting. The site is known from documentary evidence and was situated in the area of Beauchamps Court, King's Coughton.
1 Till quite recently a building stood near a pool a little to the E of the castle site, known as Oversley Court, and it would seem probable that this ...
The possible site Oversley Court, a Medieval manor house which replaced Oversley Castle. Cropmarks in this area may relate to the manor house which was situated 1km north west of Oversley Castle.
1 The excavation of three test pits by the owner prior to the construction of a new bedroom and conservatory uncovered three undated stone walls. Museum staff examined the ...
Three undated walls were recorded following the excavation of three test pits. The walls all appeared to join onto each other and may have represented three phases of building. The site was located at 4 Meeting Lane, Alcester.