Held at:

Private collection

Reference:

RS/TCF

Source:

Guest Contribution

Title:

Turnastone Court Farm: Walkover Survey Notes – Catalogue of Features of Archaeological Interest

Place name:

Golden Valley

Date:

2004

Description:

 

 

 

Turnastone Court Walkover Survey

20th April 2004

 

 

 

Staff of Archenfield Archaeologyconducted a brief walkover survey of fields forming part of Turnastone CourtEstate on 20th April 2004. This was in order to identify any areaswhich appeared to have features which might be of archaeological interest. Brief notes were made and a number of features were photographed. Thisprovisional data was entered into a ©Microsoft Access database.


Walkover Notes   Turnastone Court

Figure 1: the Trench Royal on the edge of field 22

                   

Number

OS number

Class

Type

Area(ha)

3

na

Earthwork

Ditch

ha

The Trench Royal

 

 

 

 

 

8

3048

Land Unit

Lane

0.194

Lane between 23 and 24

 

 

 

 

 

9

5779

Land Unit

Field

1.867

Field to the east of 16 and to the west of 17

 

 

 

 

 

10

8977

Land Unit

Field (part)

0.138

This was part of Turnaston Hill Wood on tithe; south-western corner of field 21

 

 

 

 

 

11

0831

Land Unit

Field

4.186

Field adjacent to and to the north of Ladywell Cottage. Immediately to the west of the Turnastone to Whitehouse Bridge Road. This was 57 - Upper Whitehouse Field on Tithe. This contained old watercourse 60 and mound 48

 

 

 

 

 

12

8437

Land Unit

Wood

0.356

Wood with quarry (61) immediately to the west of field 11 and to the east of field 13. On the tithe this was the eastern end of 55 Turnastone Hill

 

 

 

 

 

13

7139

Land Unit

Field

4.178

Field to the west of wood 12. On the tithe this was the greater part (western) of 55 Turnastone Hill

 

 

 

 

 

14

7560 (part)

Land Unit

Field

4.52

Field to the north of field 13 - the eastern part of OS number 7560

This is composed of fields 53, Part of Turnastone Wood and 54 'Part of Turnastone Wood and two acres' on tithe. Also on the tithe a strip (52a) running south into this field belonged to the vicar - this looks suspiciously like the remains of a medieval strip field system

 

 

 

 

 

15

7560 (part)

Land Unit

Field

2.16

Field to the west of field 14 and to the east of field 16 - the eastern part of OS On the tithe; this was the southern third of 48 'Part of Turnaston Hill Wood'. This contained culvert 65; number 7560

 

 

 

 

 

16

4873

Land Unit

Field

1.757

Field to the east of fields 15 and 9. Comprises OS 4873 and 5779. On tithe this was part of 48 Turnastone Hill Wood

 

 

 

 

 

17

7478

Land Unit

Field

3.952

Field to the east of 9, to the north of 15 and 16 and to the west of 18 and 21. On the tithe this was 49 Upper Ox Pasture

 

 

 

 

 

18

9069

Land Unit

Wood

0.842

Rectangular wood east of 17, north of 14, west of 19 and south of 13. On tithe this was 48 Part of Turnastone Hill Wood.  Its eastern edge appeared to have been further to the east on the tithe. A strip running north into this field on tithe looks like the remains of a medieval field system.

 

 

 

 

 

19

0761

Land Unit

Field

2.9

Field to the south of 20 and 21, to the east of 18 and to the north of 25. This is broadly the 'Seven acres under the kiln' of the tithe.  The north-eastern boundary has moved to the north however.

 

 

 

 

 

20

1968

Land Unit

Field

3.102

Field north of 19, east of 21, west of 23 and south of 22. Was part of 60 'Eight Acres' and 61 'Lower Cross Field' on the tithe

 

 

 

 

 

21

0178

Land Unit

Field

3.385

Field east of 17, north of 18 and 19, west of 20 and south of 22. Formed from part of 50  'Upper Cross Field' and 60 'Eight Acres' on the tithe

 

 

 

 

 

22

2781

Land Unit

Field

3.757

Field north of 20, 21 and 23, and south-west of the Trench Royal (1). Most, if not all, of 61 'Lower Cross Field' and some of 50 'Upper Cross Field' on the tithe

 

 

 

 

 

23

4059

Land Unit

Field

7.086

Field to the south-west of Trench Royal, south-east of 19, 20 and 22, north-west of the Turnastone to Whitehouse Bridge Road and north-east of lane 10; 64 'Eighteen Acres' on tithe

 

 

 

 

 

24

2332

Land Unit

Field

4.615

Field north of 11, east of 25 and south-west of 23; 65 'Lower Whitehouse Field' on tithe

 

 

 

 

 

25

0149

Land Unit

Field

3.065

Field bounded by 19 to the north, 14 to the west, 24 to the east; this was 58 'Kiln Piece' on the tithe

 

 

Figure 2: mound 48

Number

OS number

Class

Type

Area (ha)

 

 

 

 

 

48

na

Earthwork

Mound

0

Mound on upper (western) end of field 11

 

 

 

 

 

49

na

Earthwork

Bank

0

 

Figure 3: Feature 50 in field 13

 

Number

OS number

Class

Type

Area (ha)

 

 

 

 

 

50

na

Unclassified

Feature

0

 

 

 

 

 

58

na

Boundary

Hedge

0

 

Figure 4: grown out hedgeline 59

 

Number

OS number

Class

Type

Area (ha)

 

 

 

 

 

59

na

Boundary

Old hedgeline

0

row of trees forming boundary between fields 13 and 14

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 5: old watercourse 60

 

Number

OS number

Class

Type

Area (ha)

 

 

 

 

 

60

na

Earthwork

Watercourse

0

Old watercourse in field 11

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 6: quarry 61

 

Number

OS number

Class

Type

Area (ha)

 

 

 

 

 

61

na

Extraction

Quarry

0

Quarry in field 12

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 7: cropmark 64

 

Number

OS number

Class

Type

Area (ha)

 

 

 

 

 

64

na

Cropmark

Unknown

0

Cropmark in field 22

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 8: culvert 65

 

Number

OS number

Class

Type

Area (ha)

 

 

 

 

 

65

na

Structure

Culvert

0

Culvert in field 15

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 9: part of earthworks 68

 

Number

OS number

Class

Type

Area (ha)

 

 

 

 

 

68

na

Earthwork

Bank

0

Bank and ditch features in field 9

 

 

 

 

 

69

 

Unclassified

Feature

0

Unnatural feature in field 25 - possible quarry

 

 

 

 

 

70

na

Extraction

Quarry

0

Disused quarry in southern corner of field 9

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 10: Turnaston Court fields on the tithe map

 

Figure 11: field boundaries which existed on the tithe map

 


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