1 The house started life as a farmhouse. In 1681 John Knight was the possessor of what was described as a manor house surrounded by a 400 acre estate. ...
A house originally built during the Post Medieval period and is surrounded by a park. There were additions and alterations made to the house in the Imperial period. It has recently been renovated and restored and is situated in Ullenhall.
1 A 19th century drain and layers containing 19th and 20th century pottery were recorded during the excavation of three test pits. A sandstone layer appeared to be beneath the ...
A 19th century drain and layers containing 19th and 20th century pottery were recorded during the excavation of 3 test pits. A sandstone layer beneath the 19th century footings of the existing building may have represented the remains of an earlier building. The site was located at 4 Meeting Lane, Alcester.
1 Archaeological evaluation within the SAM of Tiddington Roman Settlement identified four broad phases of activity.
In Phase 1, the Late Iron Age-early Roman period, a co-axial field system appeared to ...
Evaluation trenching recorded a field system laid out during the Late Iron Age-early Roman period, with a possibly associated building. A second phase of activity dated to the 2nd century AD. The site is located north of Tiddington Road, Tiddington.
1 A building is shown here on a 1781 Estate map, and two pieces of land immediately adjoining and behind it are called ‘Workhouse Close’ and ‘Workhouse Land’.
2 The South ...
The site of the workhouse which housed the poor of the parish during the Imperial period. A building and two fields called 'Workhouse Close' and 'Workhouse Land' are marked on an Estate Map of 1781. The probable remains of the workhouse were revealed during excavation at The Blundells, Albion Street, Kenilworth.
1 The stone castle is built on the remains of an earlier mount and court fort, some of the earth foundations of which are still traceable. The spot where the ...
Phase one of the building of Kenilworth Castle shows that it was originally built as a motte and bailey castle from 1122 onwards . The motte is still visible as an earthwork, inside the later great keep.
1 A small U-sectioned feature, 2m wide and 1.5m deep (N section), 1.7m wide and 1.2m deep (S section) and lying NW/SE. It was cut through from a cobbled layer ...
The site of a deserted settlement of Medieval date within the outer enclosure of Boteler's Castle, suggested by earthworks and a scatter of pottery sherds. Evidence suggests that it was abandoned by the mid thirteenth century. The site lies 200m east of Oversley Castle.
1 Excavations of the N part of the site previously excavated in 1969 (PRN 500) in 1972-3. The earliest features were sleeper-beam trenches forming a right angle. The whole area ...
Several Roman buildings were excavated in Bleachfield Street, Alcester. They were indicated by post holes, timber slots, cobbled surfaces and drains. Roman pottery, animal bone and the finger of a bronze statue were also found during the excavation.
1 Withybrook has shrunk and expanded at intervals, earthworks mirroring its fluctuations in prosperity and changing farming techniques. It is not recorded until the 12th century. By 1327 it had ...
The site of the Medieval shrunken village of Withybrook. Remains of the village survive as earthworks.
1 The Roman town lies at the confluence of the Rivers Alne and Arrow. The site is beside the confluence of the two rivers under the modern town centre and ...
The Roman town of Alcester, originally a fort, which was surrounded by a defensive rampart. The town comprised an industrial zone in the Birch Abbey area, a residential area to the east, and several cemeteries.
1 Hughes’ Site A. Excavation in the Almhouses’ Gardens. A well-constructed open drain 0.3m square in cross-section and 6m long built of local flagstones. This was very slightly ...
A drain of Roman date was found during an excavation. A Roman coin and a brooch were recovered from the drain. The site was located to the west of Bleachfield Street, Alcester.
2 Trackway, linear features, ring ditch and discontinuous features show as cropmark.
A ring ditch, linear features, a trackway and other features of unknown date are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. They are located 800m south east of Junction 15, M40.
1 A large complex of cropmark features including ring ditches, enclosures, pits and linear features. Excavation produced evidence for Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Romano British occupation. ...
During an excavation evidence for a settlement was found. The features included pit clusters, ditches, enclosures and barrows. The settlement existed at the site from the Neolithic to the Roman period. It was situated east of Bushey Hill, Barford.
1 An evaluation of land to the south of known Romano British settlement uncovered evidence of activity including a large pit or ditch, other rubbish pits with fill containing pottery ...
The site of Romano British roadside settlement in the Ennersdale Road area of Coleshill.
1 Excavation in advance of construction of a new entrance building uncovered stratified medieval deposits across the whole of the excavated area. Dam construction layers dating to the 12th/13th century ...
Construction layers for the dam at Kenilworth Castle were found during excavation, together with a rubble surface and pottery, tile and glass.
2 Cropmarks of a linear feature, comprising disjointed sections of parallel lines and various small subcircular features appear on air photographs.
Linear features and sub-circular features of unknown date and function are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. They are located 400m south east of Junction 15, M40.
1 Excavated features Tiddington Road show that this part of the settlement was occupied from the 2nd to the later 3rd/4th century; in line with findings on the rest of ...
Further evidence for the Roman settlement at Tiddington was found during excavations. The remains of timber buildings and mid 2nd century rubbish filled pits were recorded. The site is located at 112 Tiddington Road, Stratford upon Avon.