Monument record 133/1/1 - Natural mound/round barrow?, near the Lawton Arms

<1> 1881-1900s, Cheshire Notes and Queries, Vol 1, p.51, item 233, Tomlinson, 1881 (Journal/Periodical). SCH558.

Round Barrow. By 1881 the eastern of 2 mounds in a field near the Lawton Arms had been cut through by the Newcastle and Sandbach Road (A 501).

<2> Longley D, 1977-1978, Longley Archive, No. 10, Record card and Site Visit Report (sketch map included) (Paper Archive). SCH2005.

Three site visits made for research for the Victoria County History volume - 12/10/77, 27/02/1978 and 19/06/1978.
Original reference for a barrow reported in Cheshire Notes and Queries, Vol 1, 1881, p.51, item 233. The NGR given, SJ 8088 5590, is almost certainly inaccurate, with no trace of a mound. However, at SJ 8092 5591, a rise in ground level abuts the brick wall adjacent to the old stables (to the south of the Lawton Arms). This is more likely to be connected with the stables than the remains of a barrow.
See also source 3.

<3> Harris, B.E. (ed), 1987, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I, Vol 1, p.84, Longley D, 1987 (Book). SCH3556.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ85NW3 (Barrow A) (Index). SCH2487.

Field visit by T.P.Waggott, 09/09/1964. No trace of barrow.

<5> English Heritage, 1990-1993, Monuments Protection Programme Site Visit Form, 12/01/1993, Robinson K.D (Unpublished Document). SCH5222.

Site visit, 12/01/1993: Mound solely a product of soil removal, and is not an archaeological feature. Not scheduled.

<6> Malcolm Reid, Amber Roy and Rob Ixer, 2024, From the heat of the fire: A biography of an early Bronze Age battle-axe from Church Lawton, Cheshire (Article in Journal). SCH9621.

A barrow cemetery at Church Lawton consisted of three known mounds positioned in a north-south linear arrangement. The cemetery occupied a marginal position of the Cheshire and Staffordshire Plain, close to its eastern edge and near the Cheshire/Staffordshire border. One barrow was destroyed in the late 1950s without investigation, although there is evidence to suggest that in the nineteenth century Bronze Age cremation burials were found there.