Find Spot record 1440/0/7 - White Barn Farm

At the site of disused mines near White Barn Farm, flint flakes and blades were found in December 1904, in a blackish, mouldy sand from a rock edge overhanging the entrance to the mine, to the level of a boarded up shaft (1). Dated to the mesolithic (3) & (4).
According to (6), this is called a 'neolithic settlement' by Roeder & Graves (1905). Flint scatters were collected from the old ground surfaces along the northwest margin of the West Mine Opencast. Examples of some of these flints collected can be seen in Manchester Museum collections (6). Despite an exhaustive search nothing can be seen today, it is likely that the area suffered greatly during the cource of the back-filling of the open cast mine (6).

<1> Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 1883 -, Transactions of the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 23/17-29 Roeder C & Graves F S 1905 (Journal/Periodical). SCH3293.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, 1980 SJ87NE2.2 (Index). SCH2487.

<3> Harris, B.E. (ed), 1987, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I, 1/39 Longley D 1987 (Book). SCH3556.

<4> Longley D, 1979, Prehistoric Sites in Cheshire, /11/No.561 (Report). SCH2719.

<5> Longley D, 1977-1978, Longley Archive, /no.561 (Paper Archive). SCH2005.

<6> 1998, Alderley Edge Landscape Project Archive (Unpublished Report). SCH4334.