Information for record number MWA5401:
Medieval finds in Old Brownsover

Summary Various finds of Medieval date, including fragments of pottery and an iron arrowhead, were found 100m north west of the church at Brownsover.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Medieval (1066 AD - 1539 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Rugby
District: Rugby, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 50 77
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 During the construction of a road on the site various finds were made. These included two polished bone implements (possibly modelling tools for pottery), several fragments of glazed ware (?Medieval), a Medieval barbed iron arrowhead and a small brass miniature dag or pistol, apparently Elizabethan.
3 Further information supplied by Bloxam in a later publication. "Some fifty years ago the road was legally converted by the late owner of Brownsover Hall, some distance southward of the old road. In the conversion, some few mediaeval relics were brought to light : a broad arrow-head of iron, possibly of the fifteenth century, or earlier ; a small dag or pistol of brass, a boy's toy, of the age of Elizabeth or James, deficient of the lock, if it ever had one; a fragment of mediaeval pottery, the portion of the handle of some vessel, with the green and yellow glaze ; and two small instruments of bone, evidently used for the purpose of marking the fragment of pottery I have described whilst in a moist and ductile state."
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: The Analyst
Author/originator: Bloxam M H
Date: 1836
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Volume/Sheet: 4
   
Source No: 3
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Rugby: The School and Neighbourhood
Author/originator: Bloxam, M H
Date: 1889
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: OS Card 29NE1
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1967
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: 29NE1
   
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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
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 SCHOOL * An establishment in which people, usually children, are taught. back
monument LOCK * A section of the water channel on a canal or river shut off above and below by lock gates provided with sluices to let the water out and in, and thus raise or lower boats from one level to another. Use more specific type where known. back
monument FINDSPOT * The approximate location at which stray finds of artefacts were found. Index with object name. back
monument CHURCH * A building used for public Christian worship. Use more specific type where known. back
monument ROAD * A way between different places, used by horses, travellers on foot and vehicles. back

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