1 Find of a toy cannon by a metal detectorist in 1997. Grid reference given of SP268915.
Stray find of a toy cannon from the Post Imperial period in the Monwode Lea area.
1 Find of a Roman denarius in 1993. Grid reference given of SP267912. Method of recovery unrecorded.
Find of a Roman coin in the area of Monwode Lea, Over Whitacre.
1 Find of a Roman denarius in April 1993. Grid reference given of SP265913. Method of recovery unreported.
Find of a Roman Imperial coin from the Monwode Lea area of Over Whitacre.
1 The site of a Guide Post, an early sign post, marked on the OS 1st edition map of 1887.
The site of a Guide Post marked on the Ordnance Survey first edition map of 1887.
1 5 silver coins found by metal detectorist at Monwode Lea Farm. 3 Elizabeth I and 2 Charles I. The latter are probably shillings or half crowns.
2 4 silver ...
1 Flint scatter found in 1978. Finds include waste cores, flakes, microliths, wasters of the micro-burin type and scrapers.
A scatter of flint implements dating from the Early Mesolithic period were found 400m south of Over Whitacre.
1 Find of one Neolithic leaf shaped arrowhead.
Findspot - a single leaf-shaped arrowhead of Neolithic date was found 500m south west of Over Whitacre.
1 An illustration in the Aylesford collection shows the old church, which evidently had a range of phases of building. This was demolished when the new church was built ...
The site of the Medieval church of St. Leonard is situated on the north side of Over Whitacre.
1 In 1658 Humphrey Jennings, the great iron master, possessed very extensive forges at Furnace End.
2 Poole Bank Furnace at Furnace End appears in a list of 1711 and had ...
The site of a forge, where cast iron was made into wrought iron during the Post Medieval period. It was situated at Furnace End, 75m east of Furnace End Bridge.
2 Ridge and furrow cultivation transcribed from air photographs.
Medieval ridge and furrow cultivation in Over Whitacre Parish which survives as earthworks.
1 Three arrowheads.
2 Flint arrowheads will be Mesolithic to Bronze Age in date.
Findspot - three Prehistoric flint arrowheads were found in the area north of Over Whitacre.
1 Class 1 Mesolithic site examined. Finds include 219 scrapers, 284 microliths, thirteen microburins and 77 burins. Numerous flakes, cores, potboilers, waste etc. There appears to be two distinct areas ...
A flint scatter of Mesolithic date, which was made up of very many different flint artefacts, was found 800m south east of Over Whitacre.
1 Mesolithic flint scatter located. Finds include 294 scrapers, 285 microliths, 26 microburins, 58 burins, numerous flakes, pot boilers, cores etc.
2 Assemblage is typically late mesolithic (7th millennium B.C.), with ...
An assemblage, known as a flint scatter, of Mesolithic implements was found 500m south west of Over Whitacre.
1 An old bronze object found at the above Grid Reference. This appears to be a Romano-British or Romano-Germanic bronze knife handle. Long, hexagonal sectioned and curved, terminating in ox-head, ...
Findspot - a bronze knife handle dating from the Roman period was found 100m east of Holt Hall Farm.
1. Holt Halll and chapel on 1686 map
2. Holt Halll farm shown on tithe map 1842
3.Verbal communication with North Warwickshire conservation officer. 17th century elements of Holt Hall incorporated into ...
Holt hall is shown with an associated chapel (see MWA86) on a map dated 1686. The present farmhouse has been much altered but incorporates elements of the 17th century building within its fabric. The gate and gate piers associated with Holt Hall are Listed (see DWA379). Holt Hall is located approximately 1.5km to the north west of Furnace End.
1 Hoare Hall garden, Hoare hall, Over Whitacre.
Lovie reports that there are grounds with lake, and a kitchen garden.
Grounds with lake and kitchen garden.
Recommended for inclusion on Local List by Lovie
1 Over Whitacre Manor House garden, Over Whitacre.
Lovie did not visit. He reports that the extent of garden survival is unknown. Extent of original garden plotted using old map.
Extent of garden survival unknown.
1 Whitacre House park/garden, Over Whitacre
Lovie reports a park; pleasure grounds with walks, plantation and orchard.
Pleasure grounds, park, plantation and orchard.
Recommended for inclusion on Local List by Lovie
1 Ice house, The Quarry House, Nuneaton Road, Over Whitacre.
Beamon and Roaf report a chamber lined with sandstone rubble of irregular plan; exhibiting four ribs to a groin vaulted roof. ...
Ice house of irregular plan with vaulted roof close to the turnpike road with foundations of which it shares one side wall.
1 Map of Holt Hall shows a chapel.
2 ‘Chapel Field’ marked.
3 The remains of the chapel were partially extant into the 20th century, but a cow unit has now been ...
The site of a chapel which was built during the Post Medieval period. It was situated 1km north east of Whitacre Fields.
1 Pond marked.
2 This was restored in the 20th century and is now used for breeding carp. The weir to the fishpond is original.
3 Photographed in 1977.
A fishpond that originally dated from the Medieval period and survives as an earthwork. It would have been used for the breeding and storage of fish. The fishpond is situated 700m north west of Monwode Lea.
1 Barber’s Farm Cottage is a Grade II Listed Building of 15th century date (though altered and extended in the 19th century), and is one of the oldest vernacular buildings ...
A Medieval cruck house which is situated on Harley Lane, Whitacre Fields. The cottage is a listed building.
1 Turnpike house/toll house marked.
2 This cottage would have been constructed in the spring of 1762. The gable end of the toll gate cottage facing the road is almost certainly ...
A toll house, where travellers would have paid a toll to use a toll road. It was built during the Imperial period and is situated 400m south of Monwode Lea.
3 A packhorse bridge of 14th century or 15th century date, 1.3m wide, having a round arch with 4 chamfered ribs. It was widened to the S in the ...
Furnace End Bridge, a road bridge which was originally a packhorse bridge and which dates to the Medieval period. It is situated at Furnace End.