Monument record 2062/2 - Legh Oaks Farm Enclosure B

Site first located in 1981 by aerial photography and confirmed in 1984. Enclosure B is sub-rectangular and ditched measuring c.30 by 15m. Shows smaller internal enclosure and hut circles. Subsoil is boulder clay, but field known as Stoney Field. Site located by geophysical survey in 1985 and trial excavations took place in 1986. This proved the ditch and located wall of rubble stone forming a hut circle, int. diam 3.5m with a clay floor. Another small trench showed a timber slot and associated postholes. Finds almost absent and non-diagonostic (1).

<1> Nevell MD, 1987, Legh Oaks Farm: An Investigation of two Cropmark Sites. Interim Report for 1985/1986 (Article in Journal). SCH9538.

<2> Nevell MD, 1988, Arthill Heath Farm, Northern Cheshire: Trial Excavations on a Prehistoric Settlement 1987-8 (Article in Journal). SCH9539.

<3> Nevell MD, 1989, Excavations on a Romano-British site at Legh Oaks Farm, Northern Cheshire, 1987-88: interim report on oval enclosure with 1st-2nd century pottery, p.45 (Article in Journal). SCH9540.