1 During the excavation of the castle trial holes were dug at various likely places without producing evidence for other buildings. There were however traces of buildings between the church ...
The site of a Medieval shrunken village. The remains of house platforms and a hollow way are visible as earthworks. The site is located to the east of Baginton Castle.
1 1979: Excavation in advance of a new housing complex. The aim was to try to establish the extent of the Roman and Saxon occupation on the Baginton Plateau. Positive ...
During an excavation the remains of an enclosure surrounding a timber building and several rubbish pits were found. The remains were Roman in date and suggested that this was once a settlement. The site was located 400m south east of the church at Baginton.
1 The Abbey of Radmore was transferred to Stoneleigh in 1154-5. The foundation stone of the church of the new Cistercian Abbey was laid in 1155. In 1241 the monastery ...
The site of Stoneleigh Abbey, a Cistercian monastery that was founded during the Medieval period. Few traces of the abbey buildings survive above the ground except for the gatehouse. The site is located southwest of The National Agricultural Centre.
3 A number of enclosures, probably representing buildings, show on air photographs, reference 1. An army camp is shown in this location on air photograph reference 2 and the crop ...
Several enclosures are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. They probably represent the remains of modern buildings. The site is located to the west of Tantara Lodge.
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 Archaeological evaluation revealed the reoccupation of the site (following the site’s abandonment to cultivation in the late medieval period), in the course of the expansion of the town in ...
Features reflecting the 19th century housing developments along Dugdale Street and Chapel Street, as depicted on the 1887 OS map, were recorded at The Ropewalk, Chapel Street, Nuneaton.
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.
2 Excavation in 1968-71 demonstrated a Period 3 at the fort dating to cAD70-74. Proven structural evidence is confined to a twin-ditch system and a twin-portalled gateway at the S. ...
The Lunt, a fort that was rebuilt several times throughout the Roman period. During an excavation the remains of defensive ramparts, a gatehouse and other buildings were found from the third phase of the fort's occupation. It is situated north of Coventry Road, Baginton.
1 Excavation from 1963 onwards in advance of gravel extraction revealed part of a defensive ditch. To the E of the road this was up to 6.7m wide and 3m ...
A defensive bank and ditch, forming an enclosure, were found during an archaeological excavation. The enclosure was Roman in date and formed the defences surrounding the Roman town of Tripontium. The enclosure was located 1km south west of Shawell.
1 1965: Excavation revealed storage pits of two types – perhaps Neolithic. Aerial photographs show an oval cluster of small pits, over twenty in number. On excavation the basic features ...
A pit cluster was excavated and was found to be a series of stake holes and gullies. These are believed to represent one oval building and part of a rectangular building. The site may be Neolithic in date and is located 300m northwest of Bushey Hill.
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 An area of stonework was found during an evaluation. The stonework included walls and a drain and a possible robbed-out wall. The drain produced material from the 11th-13th century. ...
A layer containing a significant amount of medieval pottery was found, along with a stone drain of 11th-1th century date. A stone wall and a robbed out wall were also found and were believed to have been of medieval date.
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 A Roman settlement excavated between 1980 and 1985 in advance of gravel extraction. This was concentrated in a band which ran across the centre of Field 1. Other features ...
Excavation discovered the site of a Roman settlement which was identified from enclosures, pits, ditches and a possible building. Ten ovens and two wells were uncovered. Roman pottery was also discovered. The site is located south of Wasperton.
1 Evaluation of a cropmark site in advance of quarrying was unable to clarify the status of trackways associated with a known Roman settlement, (SAM 162). Open area excavation revealed ...
Evidence of Iron Age/ Romano British settlement uncovered during a series of evaluations and excavations. The site is located 600m to the east of Marsh Farm, Salford Priors.
1 1982-3: Excavation in advance of redevelopment. Earliest occupation was in the form of ditches defining enclosures of various sizes, also concentrations of post holes and hearths indicating houses. The ...
The site of a Roman settlement excavated in 1982/3 in advance of development. Evidence of domestic activity was found from the 1st century to the mid 3rd. The site lies to the north of the Tiddington Road.
1 Mahany’s Site F. Double palisaded enclosure. Site no 34.
2 A double parallelogram structure of C1 date, and a bridge over the N ditch of the E-W road (PRN 451). ...
The remains of a series of Roman buildings and a bridge were found during an excavation. The site was located on Chantry Crescent, Alcester.
1 Scatter of Roman pot and tile located during field survey.
2 Field survey in 1984 revealed a dense scatter of worked and unworked stone, tile (flue and roof), pottery, glass ...
The site of a Roman villa was discovered during a field walking survey. Finds of building stone, hypocaust and roof tiles as well as many pottery sherds were found. Linear features and enclosures are visible on aerial photographs, 500m north east of Butlers Marston.
1 Excavation on a supermarket site cut across a clay and gravel rampart and its ditch, which are taken to be the late 2nd century defences here taking a different ...
The remains of the defensive rampart, a large earthen mound, around the Roman town of Alcester were found during an excavation. The site was situated to the east of Priory Road.
1 1970: Four palisade trenches ran N-S at the W end of the excavation. Two of these cut an Anglo Saxon grave and the most W contained early Medieval pottery. ...
The site of an Early Medieval settlement. Archaeological work has identified evidence of a palisade, a burial, and enclosures. Pottery was found in one of the palisade trenches. The location is to the northeast of the Alveston Manor Hotel.
2 Two sides of a probable rectangular enclosure show on aerial photographs.
3 The enclosure is on a hill, or ridge, top with downhill slopes to W and E. The ground ...
The site of a possible Roman settlement. An enclosure is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. Various finds, including pottery, tile and animal bone, were found during a field walking exercise. The site is located 500m south of Princethorpe.
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 Discovered during fieldwork on the line of the Kenilworth Bypass. The site consisted of a possible field system and a house platform, or enclosure, on the edge of Glasshouse ...
A Roman enclosure or platform, visible as an earthwork, was recorded during fieldwork. Trial trenches revealed the remains of a Roman building and a cremation burial suggesting that this is the site of a Roman settlement. It is situated at Glasshouse Wood.
1The southern stone wall of a substantial east-west aligned building, of probable post-medieval date, was recorded during archaeological evaluation off Little Park, Southam. The building measured at least 10m wide ...
The southern wall of a substantial east-west aligned building, of probable post-medieval date, was recorded during archaeological evaluation off Little Park, Southam.