Monument record 547/1/10 - The North Cheshire Ridge Roman Road

Section through North Cheshire Ridge Roman road near Sworton Heath, High Legh, on the line of the M56, on the south edge of the A50. March 1970 - Road was 63ft wide & made of an 8inch thick layer of sub-angular stones. Large number of tiny pebbles in 2ins of hard brown soil above the stone layer. For c.6ft inside both edges of the road the stone surface overlies a V-shaped trench c.30ins deep, cut in the clay subsoil & filled with yellowish brown sandy gravel (1). Section through North Cheshire Ridge Roman road near Sworton Heath.
Road surface had been destroyed but width between the ditches was 18m. There was evidence of a second ditch, outside the first. The soil was waterlogged at this point and it may represent a post-Roman ditch to restore the drainage (4)

<1> Lymm & District Local History Society, Various, Lymm & District Local History Society - Newsletter, 45-47/1972 Hughes E M (Newsletter). SCH2040.

<2> County Historic Environment Record, 1973-1985, Cheshire Archaeological Bulletin, 2/19-20 1974 Hughes E M (Journal/Periodical). SCH565.

<3> Longley D, 1977-1978, Longley Archive, /no.624/1 (Paper Archive). SCH2005.

<4> Various, Cheshire History, 13/1984 Hughes E M (Journal/Periodical). SCH811.