Site Event/Activity record ECH4242 - Application for the Determination of New Conditions - South Arclid, Arclid Quarry, Near Sandbach, Cheshire: Archaeological Assessment

This assessment identified a number of previously unrecorded archaeological sites within the site boundary. The results from the assessment indicate that the area has been occupied and cultivated since at least the medieval period. Remanant ridge-and-furrow survived into the post-war period, although no trace now survives within the site boundaries. Neither the possible brick kiln nor the farmstead have upstanding remains visible, although the latter was visible as an earthwork in 1947, and both may have subsurface features surviving. Although part of the area of the rifle range survives, the activity itself appears to have left no visible evidence. The field survey identified four earthwork sites, consisting of three former field boundaries and a marl pit. (1)