Monument record 1333/1 - Bronze Age burials in Chelford Parish

A possible Bronze Age urn cemetery found during landscaping the grounds of Astle Hall. Several urns containing calcined bones were recovered. An account by Foote Gower speaks of 2 urns found opposite the front of Mr John Parker's house 'one of them was too rotten to be in the least preserved. Of the other about two-thirds were taken up pretty entire. The dimensions of this about 15ins high and 11ins in the widest part'. Foote Gower suggests the urns are Roman, but Earwaker interpretes them as 'Early British. Some of the urns were deposited in the Sir Asheton Lever Museum & others were left at Astle Hall (1). Urns are no longer at Astle Hall (2).

<1> Earwaker, J P, 1877-1880, East Cheshire Past & Present, 2/1880/364-366 (Y) (Book). SCH1080.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ87SW1/1964 (Index). SCH2487.

<3> Varley, W. J. & Jackson, J. W., 1940, Prehistoric Cheshire, /Sched IV (Book). SCH2692.

<4> Harris, B.E. (ed), 1987, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I, 1/84 1986 (Book). SCH3556.

<5> Thompson Watkin W. T., 1886, Roman Cheshire: A Description of Roman Remains in the County of Chester, p.302 (Book). SCH2878.

<6> British Library, 1756-Present, Additional Manuscripts (Addit. MS.), Foote Gower (Paper Archive). SCH122.

<7> Unknown, Bodleian Library: Manuscripts, Foote Gower (Book). SCH378.

<8> Shone W, 1911, Prehistoric Man in Cheshire, p.961 (Book). SCH2710.

<9> Longley D, 1977-1978, Longley Archive, /no.20 & 626 (Paper Archive). SCH2005.