Monument record 14454 - Settlement earthworks at Shocklach

<1> Historic England & Archaeological Research Services, 2017, Cheshire National Mapping Programme and Lidar Mapping Project: Sampling the Peak Fringe, Cheshire Plain and Mersey Valley, 1608450 (Digital Archive). SCH8172.

Settlement remains of probable medieval / post medieval date are visible on lidar imagery as earthwork platforms, banks and ditches forming a complex of enclosures and boundaries centred at approximately SJ 4397 4903 on the southern edge of Shocklach. The majority of the earthworks appear to remain extant on the latest 2010-2013 aerial photography.

Some of the boundaries on the edge of the settlement earthworks appear to define the edges of fields of ridge and furrow (UIDs 1607985, 1607987) though ploughing appears to be absent from the majority of the enclosures within the complex, as visible on the lidar (2-3.

<2> Environment Agency, 2003-2020, Environment Agency LiDAR Surveys, DAR SJ4349 Environment Agency FIRST RETURN 01-NOV-2008 (Digital Archive). SCH7819.

<3> Next Perspectives, 2013, Aerial Photography for Great Britain, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery (2013), SJ4349 09-JUN-2013 (Aerial Photograph). SCH8273.

<3> Next Perspectives, 2016, Aerial Photography for Great Britain, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery (2016), SJ4349 09-JUN-2013 (Aerial Photograph). SCH9150.