Monument record 14467 - Linear Earthworks West of Knowl Cottage

<1> Higham N J, 1984-9, Professor Nick Higham's Aerial Photographs, 1987/F/23 (Aerial Photograph). SCH7659.

Two narrow, curving and near parallel linear earthworks are visible on this aerial photograph.

<2> Environment Agency, 2003-2020, Environment Agency LiDAR Surveys, 1m DSM 21/11/2015, D0193084 (Digital Archive). SCH7819.

This Lidar data once processed as a hill-shade depicts a series of narrow curving earthworks aligned west to south-east spaced at approximately twenty to twenty-five meter intervals. Each earthwork appears to comprise a narrow bank which may be associated with a similarly sized gully. The Lidar evidence suggests that these features cross or cut into the north-east to south-west aligned bank associated with a field boundary depicted on historic maps (see 3) which was removed sometime between 1910 (see 4) and 1946-7 (see 5).

<3> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 150/2, 1838 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1909-1912, Ordnance Survey Second Revision County Series (Epoch 3) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ5674, 1910 (Maps and Plans). SCH4361.

<5> The GeoInformation Group, 2005, 1940s RAF Aerial Photographs from Operation Review, CPE UK 1935 (17/01/1947) or 106G UK 1459 (02/04/1946) (Aerial Photograph). SCH4608.