Monument record 1762/1/2 - Scheduled Bowl Barrow in Carden Park

<1> Ormerod, G., 1882, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol 2, p.584 (Book). SCH1389.

Possibly one of the barrows identified by Ormerod (See 1762/1/ 0)

<2> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Unknown source (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

Possible Bronze Age round barrow. Mound is 29m N- S x 24m E- W and is slightly oval. It is 1-1.5m high. On E side mound has been partially eroded by line of former track and has slightly pitted surface, probably the result of former tree roots. No rock outcrops visible on the surface.

<3> Longley D, 1977-1978, Longley Archive, no.68 (Paper Archive). SCH2005.

Mound identified by Tom Clare in 1973. Reported to consist partly of sand.

<4> Historic England, 2011, The National Heritage List for England, 1011142 (Web Site). SCH6528.

The monument is a bowl barrow located within a golf course in Carden Park on a saddle of higher ground to the south of The Birches wood. It includes an oval sand and earthen mound up to 1.5m high with maximum dimensions of 32m by 25m.

<5> Matthews K J, Quinney P S, Sinclair A G M, 1998, The Carden Park Project: A multi-period landscape in western Cheshire (Unpublished Document). SCH8456.

Between 1996 to 1998 archaeological excavations were undertaken to investigate a cave and an area of rock shelters in a cliff face overlooking the River Dee at Carden Park. The project was run jointly between the University of Liverpool's School of Archaeology, Classics and Oriental Studies, and Chester Archaeology and forms part of a larger research project, the Three Rivers Project, aimed at examining the earlier prehistory of the Dee, Clwyd and upper Severn valleys (see ECH6535). The project comprised desk-based research, geophysical survey, excavation and measured survey. As part of this project, a rapid assessment of the scheduled round barrow was undertaken with a magnetometer in the spring of 1997. The results revealed two ‘hot spots’, one in the centre and the other towards the eastern edge. These are probably the original cremation burial under the mound and a secondary burial inserted later.

<6> Historic England & Archaeological Research Services, 2017, Cheshire National Mapping Programme and Lidar Mapping Project: Sampling the Peak Fringe, Cheshire Plain and Mersey Valley (Report). SCH8339.

An extant earthwork mound centred at SJ 4634 5354, possibly the Bronze Age bowl barrow described by Authority 1, is visible on lidar imagery and the latest 2010 vertical aerial photography and was mapped as part of the Cheshire National Mapping Programme project. The feature consists of an ovoid mound with a long axis of 29.4m and a low scarp around 3m to the south potentially representing a further, now levelled part of the barrow (see sources 6 and 7).

<7> Environment Agency, 2003-2020, Environment Agency LiDAR Surveys (Digital Archive). SCH7819.

LIDAR SJ4653 Environment Agency FIRST RETURN 22-MAR-2006

<8> Next Perspectives, 2010, Aerial Photography for Great Britain, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery (2010) (Aerial Photograph). SCH8173.

Next Perspectives APGB Imagery SJ4653 11-OCT-2010