Monument record 7963 - Sibbersfield Enclosure

<1> Historic England & Archaeological Research Services, 2017, Cheshire National Mapping Programme and Lidar Mapping Project: Sampling the Peak Fringe, Cheshire Plain and Mersey Valley, 1606879 (Digital Archive). SCH8172.

A potential later prehistoric or Roman curvilinear enclosure with two associated ring ditches is visible as cropmark ditches centred at SJ 4210 5589 on oblique aerial photography (see 2). The site comprises one larger enclosure with the two ring ditches incorporated into the perimeter, and a ditch to the north potentially representing a further boundary or enclosure. The large enclosure measures 36.5m north-west to south-east, with the south-western perimeter not visible. The larger ring ditch on the northern edge of the enclosure is approximately 12.2m in diameter and the smaller, to the west, around 7.3m.

<2> Higham N J, 1984-9, Professor Nick Higham's Aerial Photographs, 1986/7/15, 1986/8/23 (Aerial Photograph). SCH7659.

Records cropmark in this area: described as two possible straight ditches, showing up as light cropmarks and joining at c.45 degree angle.

<3> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R, 06/07/2017 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

The ditches described by NJH in (2) are pale parch marks. The features described in (1) are dark and seemingly separate.