Monument record 1824 - Bowl barrow 120m NE of Rose Farm

A disturbed tree covered mound, 32m diameter x 3m high. Surrounded by a shallow, widespread and mutilated ditch c.0.5m deep. The top is flat and measures 12m x 10m (1). Classed by Ormerod as a tumulus, composed of red sand c.26yds high & 100yds in circumference at base. A considerable portion of it has been removed and 'articles of some sort' are said to have been found in it. When a large portion of the interior was exposed there appeared layers of what were identified as bones (2). Classed by VCH as Bronze Age round barrow (3). OS consider the mound is too large for a barrow and is probably a Motte (1). Scheduled as a bowl barrow, located on flat land 120m NE of Rose Farm. Consists of a flat-topped mound of red sand 32m diameter & up to 2.5m high, with a surrounding ditch 7m wide and 0.5m deep (5). The size and shape of the mound seem indicative of a late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age ditched bowl barrow. Due to the poor state of the mound, with both rabbit burrows and old badger sets dug into it and old tree root bowls exposed on the surface, geophysical surveys have produces a small amount of data to add to the knowledge already available. The fact that Scott Pine and Hawthorn trees occupy the site also places the mound under great stress. Slowly the mound is deteriorating through natural erosion, animal intrusion and the growth of trees on its surface as well as human activity (8).

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ45NE1 1976 (Index). SCH2487.

<2> Ormerod, G., 1882, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, 2/371 (Y) (Book). SCH1389.

<3> Harris, B.E. (ed), 1987, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I, 1/82 Longley D 1987 (Book). SCH3556.

<4> Longley D, 1977-1978, Longley Archive, /no.66 (Paper Archive). SCH2005.

<5> English Heritage, Various, Old/Original Schedule Entry (Scheduled Ancient Monuments Description), 22588 (Scheduling Record). SCH4606.

<5> English Heritage, Various, Schedule Entry (Scheduled Ancient Monuments Amendment), 22588 (Scheduling Record). SCH2950.

<6> Thompson Watkin W. T., 1886, Roman Cheshire: A Description of Roman Remains in the County of Chester, p.314 (Book). SCH2878.

<7> Shone W, 1911, Prehistoric Man in Cheshire, p.57 (Book). SCH2710.

<8> Poole. B, 2002, Coddington Mound, Coddington Village, Geophysics Survey (Unpublished Report). SCH4349.