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Title:

Land off St Peter's Road, Kineton, Warwickshire

Series:

Archaeology Warwickshire unpublished report series

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5284/1019666

Publication Type:

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Abstract:

An archaeological watching brief during the construction of two new areas of housing and associated access including car parking and services exposed some medieval layers associated with the small town of Kineton. The western half of the site appears to have been within the small medieval borough of Kineton, which was attached to the village in the early 1200s. A layer of crushed limestone may have been a medieval yard surface and a single east-west ditch was probably one of the original burgage plot boundaries of the borough. Pottery found at the bottom of the ditch dated from the 13th to the early 14th century. A considerable amount of medieval pottery was also found in the layer above the yard surface. Over 220 sherds of pottery were recovered with most dating from the circa 1200 to 1325 and suggesting a peak in the occupation on this site during that period. This might suggest that the borough of Kineton was prospering in the first 125 to 150 years after its creation but that its fortunes began to decline after the mid 14th. Fortunately this also appears to match with some of the known historical evidence for the small borough. In the eastern part of the site the soil stripping 15 sherds of medieval pottery dating from the 13th century and a single sherd from the late 12th or 13th century were recovered. It is perhaps significant that this part of the site, with a far lower number of finds, was within the area of medieval Kineton but outside the area that had Borough status. A further north-south ditch was observed in a new service trench and, despite the upper fill only containing 19th and 20th century debris, it is plausible that it is was on the line of a boundary ditch marking the eastern edge of the small borough. A small stone structure was also uncovered during soil stripping, dated to the 18th or 19th and perhaps for some agricultural purpose.

Author:

Bryn Gethin

Publisher:

Archaeology Warwickshire

Other Person/Org:

Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Warwickshire HER (OASIS Reviewer)

Year of Publication:

2012

Locations:

Site:	Land off St Peter's Road, Kineton, Warwickshire
Parish:	KINETON
District:	Stratford-on-Avon
County:	Warwickshire
Country:	England
Location - Auto Detected:	Kineton

Grid Reference: 433720, 251200 (Easting, Northing)

Subjects / Periods:

POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)	BRICK (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)	CERAMIC (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)	CLAY PIPE (SMOKING) (Object England)
UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods)	Copper Alloy Object (Find)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)	Glass (Find)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)	SHERD (Object England)
20TH CENTURY (Historic England Periods)	SHERD (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)	SHERD (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)	ROOF SLATE (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)	Stoneware (Find)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)	TILE (Object England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)	DITCH (Monument Type England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)	SETTLEMENT (Monument Type England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)	YARD (Monument Type England)
Mid 14th (Auto Detected Temporal)
Late 12th (Auto Detected Temporal)
Medieval (Auto Detected Temporal)
20th Century (Auto Detected Temporal)
13th To The Early 14th Century (Auto Detected Temporal)
13th Century (Auto Detected Temporal)
1200 To 1325 (Auto Detected Temporal)
	WATCHING BRIEF (Event)

Identifiers:

OASIS Id:	archaeol27-124035
OBIB:	1214

Note:

A4 comb bound report

Source:

OASIS (OASIS)

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Created Date:

25 Nov 2016