Monument record 15726 - Earthworks South of Lamaload Treatment Works

<1> Historic England & Archaeological Research Services, 2017, Cheshire National Mapping Programme and Lidar Mapping Project: Sampling the Peak Fringe, Cheshire Plain and Mersey Valley, 1600824 (Digital Archive). SCH8172.

A group of medieval and / or post medieval hollow ways are visible as earthworks centred at approximately SJ 9682 7540 on historic vertical aerial photography and lidar imagery. Some of the trackways appear to have been levelled by the latest 2011 aerial imagery (see 4). At least one of the hollow ways cuts through ridge and furrow ploughing (UID 1600776 (CHER 15725)) (see 2-4).

<2> Royal Air Force, 1945-1979, RAF Aerial Photographs, RAF/58/B/21 V 5068 07/05/1948 (Aerial Photograph). SCH8316.

<3> Environment Agency, 2003-2020, Environment Agency LiDAR Surveys, SJ9675 FIRST RETURN 19-22/04/2006 (Digital Archive). SCH7819.

<4> Next Perspectives, 2011, Aerial Photography for Great Britain, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery (2011), SJ9675 08/04/2011 (Aerial Photograph). SCH8291.

<5> Oxford Archaeology North, 2005, Millbrook Boreholes to Lamaload Reservoir, Peak District National Park, p.31 no.25 (Client Report). SCH4711.

A possible ditched enclosure is shown in aerial photographs from 1999-2001 (see 6). It has a rounded west end, while the east end is sub-square, and there are opposing gaps in the north and south sides.

<6> The GeoInformation Group, 1999-2001, Millennium Survey (Aerial Photograph). SCH4609.

<7> Environment Agency, 2003-2020, Environment Agency LiDAR Surveys, Composite DSM 1m 2020 (Digital Archive). SCH7819.