Site Event/Activity record ECH2796 - Excavations at Bowling Green, Castle, Northwich

Four week excavation by University of Manchester under G.D.B Jones, University of Manchester, in July/August 1983 on the site of the Bowling Green, north of Chester Road and now occupied by the western half of Castle Court; at the time of excavation, the site formed the last major area of open land on the Castle. Ten trenches were excavated: Trenches 1 to 6 were evaluation trenches dug in July, followed in August by trenches 7 to 10 which were open area excavations, also two evaluation trenches (9 and 10), designed to locate the western defences. Two parallel ditches were encountered running the entire length of the site and the open area excavations found evidence of timber buildings lying between the two ditches and cut by them. The finds archive is held mostly by Cheshire Museums. (1) Interim reports were published in 1983 and 1987, Jones, Nevell & Reynolds. (2-3) Accounts written by G.D.B. Jones of the 1983 excavations at the Bowling Green site. (4-5)