Monument record 1349 - Round Barrow South-east of Capesthorne Hall

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ 87 SW 3 (Index). SCH2487.

Bronze Age burial mound south-east of Capesthorne Hall. 17m in diameter and 1.5m high.

<2> Harris, B.E. (ed), 1987, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I, Vol.I p.85 (Book). SCH3556.

Possibly the result of recent landscaping.

<3> Sainter J D, 1878, Scientific Rambles Round Macclesfield, p.156 (Book). SCH2964.

Sainter mentions two tumuli in Capesthorne Park. The second is possibly CHER 1352.

<4> English Heritage, Various, Old/Original Schedule Entry (Scheduled Ancient Monuments Description), CH60 (Scheduling Record). SCH4606.

Barrow situated in coppiced wood, approximately 18 metres in diameter north-south, about the same west-east, but with slight tailing off downhill on the south-west. 2-2.2m in height. One tall tree, approximately 20m high on summit of barrow and two other trees on south-western edge of mound. Some disturbance from rabbit holes.

<5> Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 1883 -, Transactions of the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, Vol.50 1934-5, p.97 (J Wilfrid Jackson) (Journal/Periodical). SCH3293.

<6> English Heritage, Various, Schedule Entry (Scheduled Ancient Monuments Amendment), 22575 (Scheduling Record). SCH2950.

The monument is a bowl barrow located on a local high point in woodland 450m south-east of Capesthorne Hall. It includes an earthen mound measuring 20m in diameter and up to 2m high.

<7> Longley D, 1977-1978, Longley Archive, no.22 (Paper Archive). SCH2005.

<8> Historic England & Archaeological Research Services, 2017, Cheshire National Mapping Programme and Lidar Mapping Project: Sampling the Peak Fringe, Cheshire Plain and Mersey Valley, 76436 (Digital Archive). SCH8172.

The Bronze Age round barrow, centred at SJ 8451 7257, is visible as an earthwork mound on historic aerial photography but is obscured by tree cover on the latest 2010 vertical imagery. It was mapped as part of the Cheshire National Mapping Programme project and measures approximately 17.5 metres in diameter. The barrow appears to have been respected by post medieval ploughing (see 9-10).

<9> Royal Air Force, 1944-1947, 1940s RAF Aerial Photographs from Operation Review, RAF/CPE/UK/1935 FP 1085 17/01/1947 (Aerial Photograph). SCH8041.

<10> Next Perspectives, 2010, Aerial Photography for Great Britain, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery (2010), SJ8472 11/10/2010 (Aerial Photograph). SCH8173.