Information for record number MWA13143:
Possible site of the Hundred Court, Coleshill

Summary Possible site of Hundred Court on The Croft next to the Parish (former Minster) church.
What Is It?  
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Period: Early medieval - Post-medieval (801 AD - 1750 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Coleshill
District: North Warwickshire, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 20 88
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Level of Protection Local
Description

  
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1 Site of The Hundred Court, Coleshill. The Coleshill Hundred was the largest of the 10 Warwickshire Hundreds in 1086, and the Hundred Court met six-monthly at Coleshill possibly on the area next to the Parish (former Minster) church known as The Croft where faint earthworks can be seen. The Site is near a crossroads, a common meeting place of the Hundred Court, as is a ford, also to be found not far away. By 1161 - 62 it had transferred to Hemlingford Green near Kingsbury. The now three-weekly Hundred Court continued to meet at Coleshill until 1789.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: Warwickshire Extensive Urban Survey Coleshill Assessment
Author/originator: B Morton
Date: 2011
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technique Earthwork Earthworks can take the form of banks, ditches and mounds. They are usually created for a specific purpose. A bank, for example, might be the remains of a boundary between two or more fields. Some earthworks may be all that remains of a collapsed building, for example, the grassed-over remains of building foundations.

In the winter, when the sun is lower in the sky than during the other seasons, earthworks have larger shadows. From the air, archaeologists are able to see the patterns of the earthworks more easily. Earthworks can sometimes be confusing when viewed at ground level, but from above, the general plan is much clearer.

Archaeologists often carry out an aerial survey or an earthwork survey to help them understand the lumps and bumps they can see on the ground.
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period Medieval 1066 AD to 1539 AD (the 11th century AD to the 16th century AD)

The medieval period comes after the Saxon period and before the post medieval period.

The Medieval period begins in 1066 AD.
This was the year that the Normans, led by William the Conqueror (1066 – 1087), invaded England and defeated Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in East Sussex.
The Medieval period includes the first half of the Tudor period (1485 – 1603 AD), when the Tudor family reigned in England and eventually in Scotland too.

The end of the Medieval period is marked by Henry VIII’s (1509 – 1547) order for the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the years running up to 1539 AD. The whole of this period is sometimes called the Middle Ages.
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monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument MINSTER * A complex of buildings, often within an enclosure, housing a pre-Benedictine Reform secular religious community. Now commonly used to describe the main church within such a complex, which over time attained higher status. back
monument CHURCH * A building used for public Christian worship. Use more specific type where known. back
monument CROSSROADS * A road junction where two (or occasionally more) roads cross each other. back
monument CROFT * An enclosed piece of land adjoining a house. back
monument EARTHWORK * A bank or mound of earth used as a rampart or fortification. back
monument FORD * A shallow place in a river or other stretch of water, where people, animals and vehicles may cross. back

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