Site Event/Activity record ECH6392 - Land at Park Green, Macclesfield: Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment

Archaeological desk-based assessment undertaken in May 2017 in advance of a proposed supermarket development on land at Park Green, Macclesfield. The assessment identified that a brewery was established on the site during the 1790’s and that the site was fully developed by 1838. Construction of the brewery and later associated buildings is likely to have at least in part disturbed any surviving archaeological remains. However excavations elsewhere in Macclesfield have demonstrated partial survival of 17th and 18th century remains beneath later development and there is considered to be a high potential for post-medieval remains being present on the site. Although no earlier, pre post-medieval remains are identified on the site, it is located within Macclesfield’s Areas of Archaeological Potential in an area identified as being one of two areas thought to have been settled in the early medieval period. The Cheshire Historic Towns Survey Archaeological Assessment for Macclesfield has identified a potential for earlier remains within the vicinity, including Early Historic and Medieval remains associated with a potential manorial centre. The potential for earlier remains being present on the site cannot therefore be discounted. (1)