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Birmingham Warwickshire Archaeol Soc Trans 95
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Birmingham Warwickshire Archaeol Soc Trans 95
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Birmingham & Warwickshire Archaeological Society Transactions
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95
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1990
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Date Of Issue From: 1987 Date Of Issue To: 01
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20 Jan 2002
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Excavations at Nadbury Camp, Warwickshire SP 390482
Catriona McArthur
1 - 16
Nadbury Camp is a seven-hectare Iron Age hillfort in south Warwickshire. The defences survive on all sides but are in varying states of preservation. A small excavation on the northern defences revealed a glacis type rampart constructed on a stone platform with a rear kerb of large stones, and no evidence for a defensive ditch on this side. The front face of the rampart had been destroyed at this point by quarrying. Pits of both pre- and post-rampart date were also revealed. The assemblages and radiocarbon dates suggest a date of construction for the rampart sometime within the central two centuries of the first millennium BC. Geophysical survey work indicates the survival of considerable occupation evidence in the interior of the site.
Bridge End, Warwick: archaeological excavation of a medieval street frontage
Stephen Cracknell
17 - 72
Excavations in Warwick in the winter of 1983-4 uncovered part of the extra-mural medieval suburb of Bridge End, which grew up where the roads from London, Myton and Bishop's Itchington joined to cross the bridge over the River Avon. The excavation uncovered a causeway on the approaches to the bridge, which must have been in existence by c AD 1200. A series of timber-framed houses was built on the frontage until the area was finally cleared at the turn of the nineteenth century. The archaeological remains relate largely to the thirteenth-sixteenth centuries AD but the documentary records continue the story through the following two hundred and fifty years.Smithing seems to have been one of the most important trades here although most of the evidence for this comes from documentary rather than archaeological sources. Good groups of stratified medieval pottery were found along with assemblages of domestic metalwork and bone. Reports are included on: `The medieval pottery' Stephanie </ze> Ratkai (33-58), `The ironworking residues: summary' J G </ze> McDonnell (58), `The animal bone: summary and conclusions' Julie </ze> Hamilton (58), `The charred plant remains: summary' Lisa </ze> Moffett (58-9), and `Documentary records of the site' Christine </ze> Hodgetts (59-65). Fuller reports are included on microfiche: `The post-medieval pottery' Stephanie Ratkai (C4), `The tile' Stephanie Ratkai (D4), `The iron objects' Ian H </ze> Goodall (D11), `The copper alloy objects' Alison R </ze> Goodall (E1), `The coins' W A </ze> Seaby (E4), `The ironworking residues' J G McDonnell (E4), `The clay tobacco pipes' Nicholas </ze> Palmer (E7), `The animal bone' Julie Hamilton (E8), `The charred plant remains' Lisa Moffett (F3). Au
A penknife point from Purley Park, Warwickshire
John Pickin
100 - 101
A late Upper Palaeolithic flint artefact, found amongst an assemblage of predominantly Mesolithic flint, is the first implement from this period to be recorded in Warwickshire.
A grooved stone axe from Whitnash, Warwickshire
John Pickin
102 - 103
An early British sword from Solihull
Philip J Watson
103 - 107
A flange-hilted sword with a long slender leaf-shaped blade was recovered during ploughing. It is likely to date from the twelfth to eleventh centuries BC.
A lead `bucket' from Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Christopher J Guy
107 - 109
Part of a decorated Roman lead tank was found, together with a large quantity of scrap lead and several pieces of fired clay. It is possible that the tank was associated with Christian rituals.
A medieval seal fragment from Coleshill
D Symons
109 - 111
An engraved, silver, oval shaped band, which must have formed part of a seal, was found by a metal detector user. It is likely to date from the thirteenth or possibly the fourteenth century AD.
A medieval sherd from St Philip's churchyard, Birmingham
D Symons
111 - 112
A rim fragment from a pitcher with a strap handle, decorated with impressed motifs and glazed, indicates the possibility of medieval activity in the area.
Three coin hoards from the Birmingham area
D Symons
112 - 115
Coin hoards are recorded from Alum Rock, consisting of a small number of large Roman bronze coins; Hill House, composed of five Nurembourg jettons; and Handsworth Wood, which contains coins ranging in date from the second century BC to the sixteenth century AD and must represent a modern loss.
A possible Roman coin hoard find in Birmingham
D Symons
Speculative note based on hearsay evidence, no traces of the hoard remain.
An ovate hand-axe from Bilton, Rugby
John Pickin