Monument record 15037 - Relict Field Boundaries South of Pump Lane

<1> Historic England & Archaeological Research Services, 2017, Cheshire National Mapping Programme and Lidar Mapping Project: Sampling the Peak Fringe, Cheshire Plain and Mersey Valley, 1606877 (Digital Archive). SCH8172.

A complex of probable medieval or post medieval boundaries and enclosures to the south-east of the village of Churton is visible as earthworks centred at approximately SJ 4222 5629 on lidar imagery (see 2) and remains extant on the latest 2010 aerial photography (see 3). The complex are potentially settlement remains associated with an earlier phase of the present day village and form a series of rectilinear enclosures or fields, at least one of which appears to enclose contemporary ridge and furrow ploughing. The boundaries are largely comprised of earthwork banks, ditches or a combination of both.

<2> Environment Agency, 2003-2020, Environment Agency LiDAR Surveys, SJ4256, 25/03/2005 (Digital Archive). SCH7819.

<3> Next Perspectives, 2010, Aerial Photography for Great Britain, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery (2010), SJ4256, 11/10/2010 (Aerial Photograph). SCH8173.

<4> Higham N J, 1984-9, Professor Nick Higham's Aerial Photographs, 1986/8/25, 27 (Aerial Photograph). SCH7659.

A north-north-west to south-south-east aligned linear earthwork is visible running south for c.200m from the western boundary of the garden to Plowley Bank.