Monument record 1872 - Site of a Bronze Age Burial at Kelsall

<1> Bu’Lock, JD, 1961, The Bronze Age in the North-West, p.38 (Article in Journal). SCH9147.

Site of a Bronze Age burial at Kelsall. No mound, small stone circle with cremation. Two filled pits, one pit filled with stones over tripartite urn, cremation and boar tusk.

<2> Chester Archaeological Society, 1952, Miscellanea, p.110 (Article in Journal). SCH5726.

A tripartite cinerary urn of the Middle Bronze Age found during excavations undertaken in 1950 in a nursery, east of Kelsall, is now in the Grosvenor Museum. The urn was found inverted. It is slightly asymmetrical, its height varying from 10.5 inches to 9.5 inches, with a rim diameter of 7 inches and a base diameter of 3.75 inches. It is made of coarse, buff fabric, slightly blackened towards the rim. Both the rim and waist are decorated with a series of shallow incised lines forming an irregular, chevron pattern, and the interior of the rim is decorated with a single row of oblique, incised lines.

<3> Cheshire Rural Community Council, 1951-1960, The Cheshire Historian, no.1 (1951) p.27 (Journal/Periodical). SCH3102.

Includes a photograph of the urn.

<4> Longley D, 1977-1978, Longley Archive, no.92 (Paper Archive). SCH2005.