Information for record number MWA4623:
Site of Iron Age Settlement at Tiddington

Summary Fragments of pottery and 'pot boilers' have been found south of Tiddington Road, Stratford upon Avon. The finds suggest that this might have been an Iron Age settlement.
What Is It?  
Type: Settlement, Findspot
Period: Iron Age (800 BC - 42 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Stratford upon Avon
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 21 55
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
Source Number  

1 Gravel pit opened in the 1920s and finds collected on a number of occasions. These included Iron Age pottery and 'pot boilers', probably indicating that there was an Iron Age settlement here. Finds in New Place Museum, Stratford on Avon are marked "Loxley Lane Gravel pit". These appear to have been collected by a local antiquary.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: SMR Card
Author/originator: NJP
Date: 1985
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: PRN 4678
   
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Glossary

 
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source SMR Card Sites and Monuments Record Card. The Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record began to be developed during the 1970s. The details of individual archaeological sites and findspots were written on record cards. These record cards were used until the 1990s, when their details were entered on to a computerised system. The record cards are still kept at the office of the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
period Iron Age About 800 BC to 43 AD

The Iron Age comes after the Bronze Age and before the Roman period. It is a time when people developed the skills and knowledge to work and use iron, hence the name ‘Iron Age’ which is given to this period. Iron is a much tougher and more durable metal than bronze but it also requires more skill to make objects from it. People continued to use bronze during this period.
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monument SETTLEMENT * A small concentration of dwellings. back
monument FINDSPOT * The approximate location at which stray finds of artefacts were found. Index with object name. back
monument ROAD * A way between different places, used by horses, travellers on foot and vehicles. back
monument MUSEUM * A building, group of buildings or space within a building, where objects of value such as works of art, antiquities, scientific specimens, or other artefacts are housed and displayed. back
monument GRAVEL PIT * A steep-sided pit formed by, and for, the extraction of gravel. back

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