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Medieval town of Clare.

Collegiate Church of St John Baptist - site of.

Polished Neo flint axe found on Clappes Field by J Blake, 27/11/58 in clay pit.

Scheduled Monument - A layer of large flints, possibly a dump of building material, within the topsoil. Medieval pottery and Roman ceramic building material found also.

Woodland shown on 1839 Tithe Map (S1).

Within Scheduled Monument - A layer of large flints, possibly a dump of building material, within the topsoil. Medieval pottery and Roman ceramic building material found also.

Skull located during excavation of deep post hole (millennium post) c. 1.5m down on line of railway track.

Rectilinear cropmark system, pottery scatter found fieldwalking 1981 and coins found metal detecting.

Clare Brick Works (and kilns), 1892-1916, marked on early 20th century maps. Now partly built over.

Motte and Bailey first documented in 1090, and probably disused by the end of the 15th century. There is documentary evidence that a secular college existed in the church within the castle at Clare in Edward the Confessor's reign until 1090, (then be...