Information for record number MWA2065:
Site of Hill Figure at Sun Rising Covert

Summary The site of a hill figure which was created during the Imperial period. The figure was a horse. It replaced an earlier hill figure known as The Red Horse which was situated near Tysoe. This hill figure was located at Sun Rising Covert.
What Is It?  
Type: Hill Figure
Period: Imperial - Industrial (1751 AD - 1913 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Stratford on Avon
District: Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 35 45
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
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1 Red Horse marked.
2 The figure of the horse was cut, shortly after 1798, on the flat top of Edge Hill, near the Sunrising Inn, Tysoe, by the Innkeeper, when the original Red Horse (PRN 2066) was destroyed. Some attempt was made to maintain the annual scouring festivities at the new site until c1907 but a few years later it was obliterated by the landowner after the closing of an Inn. It was still visible until c1920 but is now overgrown by trees.
3 The site is now covered by trees and dense undergrowth; no visual remains were seen.
4 Report of resistivity survey from 1980.
5 Booklet from 1965.
6 Press cutting from 1964.
7 A letter from 1887.
8 Further information from 1887.
9 Letter from 1964.
10 Letter from 1966.
11 Report of resistivity survey done in 1967 based on SP354448.
12 Excavation report.
13 Transparencies.
14 Photographs.
15 Note of documentary evidence.
16 Correspondence from 1978 about photographs.
17 Brief entry about the site.
18 Reference in Geological Survey.
19 Reference in Geological Survey.
20 Correspondence from 1990 from Swindon.
21 Address details of people envolved in researching the site.
22 Internal memo.
23 Correspondence (by e-mail) about the site.
24 Internet material.
25 documentary evidence from 1750.
26 Further booklet, published later than
5, but no date given. Author assumed to be Miller, W.G. as his are the only contact details given.
27 Correspondance from W.G.Miller to Emma Jones containing further information on the Red Horse.
28 The available aerial photographs which cover this area have been examined as part of the South East Warwickshire and Cotswolds HLS Target Areas National Mapping Programme, but the area was covered by vegetation and the site was not visible.
29 Re-mapped to Sun Rising Covert to include symbol of Red Horse shown on 1st Edition OS Map
 
Sources
Source No: 5
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: The Red Horse of Tysoe
Author/originator: Miller, W.G. and Carrdus, K.A.
Date: 1965
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Source No: 17
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Figures in a Landscape
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Source No: 18
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the UK. "The Jurassic Rocks of Britiain vol III The Lias of England and Wales"
Author/originator: Woodward, H.B.
Date: 1893
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Source No: 19
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales, Part I.
Author/originator: Conybeare, W.D.
Date: 1822
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Source No: 25
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: The Diaries of Sanderson Miller
Author/originator: Hawkes, William, ed.
Date: 2005
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Source No: 26
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: The Search for Britain's Lost Unique Hill-Figure
Author/originator: W G Miller
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: White Horses
Author/originator: Marples M
Date: 1949
Page Number: 118
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Source No: 7
Source Type: Correspondence
Title: The Red Horse
Author/originator: Francis, C. D.
Date: 1887
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Source No: 9
Source Type: Correspondence
Title: The Red Horse, Tysoe
Author/originator: Carrdus K
Date: 1964
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Source No: 10
Source Type: Correspondence
Title: 'Old Lodge' site, Tysoe
Author/originator: Miller G
Date: 1966
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Source No: 16
Source Type: Correspondence
Title: The Red Horse of Tysoe
Author/originator: Prof C. Hawkes
Date: 1978
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Source No: 20
Source Type: Correspondence
Title: The Red Horse, Tysoe
Author/originator: RCHME
Date: 1990
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Source No: 27
Source Type: Correspondence
Title: Correspondance from W.G. Miller on the Red Horse of Tysoe
Author/originator: W G Miller
Date: 2001
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Source No: 23
Source Type: Digital archive
Title: The Red Horse, Tysoe
Author/originator: Monteith, Helen
Date: 2005
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Source No: 28
Source Type: Desk Top Study
Title: SE Warwickshire and Cotswolds NMP Project
Author/originator: Russell Priest
Date: 2010-2012
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Source No: 12
Source Type: Excavation Report
Title: The Red Horse of Tysoe
Author/originator: J.A. Radley (Laboratories ) Ltd
Date: 1969
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Source No: 24
Source Type: Internet Data
Title: The Red Horse of Tysoe
Author/originator: Hows
Date: 2005
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Source No: 29
Source Type: Map
Title: 34NE 1:10560 1886
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1886
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Volume/Sheet: Sht Warks 34NE
   
Source No: 1
Source Type: Map
Title: OS Map 1891
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1891
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Volume/Sheet: 10560
   
Source No: 8
Source Type: Note
Title: The Red Horse
Author/originator: Scarlett Potter F
Date: 1887
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Source No: 15
Source Type: Note
Title: The Red Horse, Tysoe
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Date: 1835
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Source No: 21
Source Type: Note
Title: The Red Horse of Tysoe
Author/originator: Wise, P
Date: 1990
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Source No: 22
Source Type: Note
Title: Red Horse of Tysoe
Author/originator: Maclagan H
Date: 1999
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Source No: 6
Source Type: Newspaper/Magazine Article
Title: Red Horse of Tysoe
Author/originator: The Birmingham Post
Date: 1964
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Source No: 13
Source Type: Photograph
Title: Tysoe
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Date: 1964/5
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Source No: 14
Source Type: Photograph
Title: Tysoe
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Source No: 3
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: OS Card 25NE6
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1968
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Source No: 4
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: The Red Horse(s) of Tysoe
Author/originator: Heathcote, C.
Date: 1980
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Source No: 11
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: The Red Horse of Tysoe
Author/originator: J.A. Radley (Laboratories ) Ltd
Date: 1968
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source OS Card Ordnance Survey Record Card. Before the 1970s the Ordnance Survey (OS) were responsible for recording archaeological monuments during mapping exercises. This helped the Ordnance Survey to decide which monuments to publish on maps. During these exercises the details of the monuments were written down on record cards. Copies of some of the cards are kept at the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. The responsibility for recording archaeological monuments later passed to the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments. back
technique Documentary Evidence Documentary evidence is another name for written records. The first written records in Britain date back to the Roman period. Documentary evidence can take many different forms, including maps, charters, letters and written accounts. When archaeologists are researching a site, they often start by looking at documentary evidence to see if there are clues that will help them understand what they might find. Documentary evidence can help archaeologists understand sites that are discovered during an excavation, field survey or aerial survey. back
technique Resistivity Survey A resistivity survey measures the electrical resistance of the soil and any buried features within it. Where there are buried pits and ditches, there is less resistance to the flow of electricity. Where there are archaeological remains made from stone, for example a wall, the resistance is greater. These differences in resistance are measured and recorded by archaeologists using a resistivity meter. The measurements can then be used to plot features that exist below the ground. See also geophysical survey. back
technique excavation Archaeologists excavate sites so that they can find information and recover archaeological materials before they are destroyed by erosion, construction or changes in land-use.

Depending on how complicated and widespread the archaeological deposits are, excavation can be done by hand or with heavy machinery. Archaeologists may excavate a site in a number of ways; either by open area excavation, by digging a test pit or a trial trench.
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technique Aerial Photograph Aerial photographs are taken during an aerial survey, which involves looking at the ground from above. It is usually easier to see cropmarks and earthworks when they are viewed from above. Aerial photographs help archaeologists to record what they see and to identify new sites. There are two kinds of aerial photographs; oblique and vertical. back
period Imperial 1751 AD to 1914 AD (end of the 18th century AD to the beginning of the 20th century AD)

This period comes after the Post Medieval period and before the modern period and starts with beginning of the Industrial Revolution in 1750. It includes the second part of the Hannoverian period (1714 – 1836) and the Victorian period (1837 – 1901). The Imperial period ends with the start of the First World War in 1914.
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monument INN * A public house for the lodging and entertainment of travellers, etc. back
monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument LODGE * A small building, often inhabited by a gatekeeper, gamekeeper or similar. Use specific type where known. back
monument INDUSTRIAL * This is the top term for the class. See INDUSTRIAL Class List for narrow terms. back
monument HILL FIGURE * A giant figure of a man or animal carved on chalk hillsides in southern England. back
monument TARGET * Any structure or object, used for the purpose of practice shooting by aerial, seaborne or land mounted weapons. back

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