Monument record 129 - Linear Earthwork at Preston on the Hill

<1> Higham N J, 1984-9, Professor Nick Higham's Aerial Photographs, 1987/F/2-6, 31/01/1987 (Aerial Photograph). SCH7659.

<2> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Unknown (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

Two sides of a rectangular ditched enclosure to the east of the present village of Preston-on-the-Hill, discovered from the air. Possibly linked to placename evidence for Late Saxon ecclesiastical settlement (see 3).

<3> Harris, B.E. (ed), 1987, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I, p.253 (Book). SCH3556.

<4> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R, 03/12/2018 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

The aerial photographs (see 1) show a linear earthwork aligned east-north-east to south-west-south and curving ninety degrees at its eastern end towards Summer Lane. Vertical aerial photographs from the early 1990s (see 6) show this turn to be rounded and the new alignment to be north-south. A field boundary corresponding to this feature is depicted on the 1845 tithe map (see 7).

<5> The GeoInformation Group, 2005, 1940s RAF Aerial Photographs from Operation Review (Aerial Photograph). SCH4608.

<6> National Remote Sensing Centre Ltd, 1992-3, National Remote Sensing Centre County Survey (1992-1993), Film 101/93, run 17, no.186, 26/08/1993 (Aerial Photograph). SCH5297.

<7> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 334/2 c.1845 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.