Monument record 1369 - Bowl barrow 370m ESE of Bearhurst Farm

Bronze Age round barrow at Bearhurst, excavated by G.Rowley and D. Bethell in 1965-6. Mound 22m diam x 1.5n high. Cremation in Collared urn, covered by round based vessel. The cinerary urn stood in an ash-filled cremation pit. Amongst a quantity of flint material from the body of the mound was a crude leaf- shaped arrowhead. This and the 2 urns are now in the Grosvenor (1) + (2). One of the urns was of Peterborough type, the other was of tripartite form, consisting of a collar, an almost vertical centre section & an incurving lower third part, leading to a very narrow flat base or foot. The rim has zig-zag cord impressions & the collar, diagonal cord decoration in alternate panels. The arrowhead is of petit-tranchet type (3). The other finds of human bone, flint and pottery fragments are at Keele University (4). Site is tree- capped and crossed by field boundary (2). Site excavated 1965- 6, not 1955-6 as given in ref 2.

<1> County Historic Environment Record, 1973-1985, Cheshire Archaeological Bulletin, 4/28 Petch DF 1976 (Journal/Periodical). SCH565.

<2> Harris, B.E. (ed), 1987, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I, 1/84 1987 (Book). SCH3556.

<3> Rowley G 1982, 1982, Macclesfield in Prehistory, Rowley G 1982 /19,26,28+30 (Book). SCH2062.

<4> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Wilson D 1986 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

<5> Rowley G, 1978, Correspondence and Outline Report (Unspecified Type). SCH977.

<6> English Heritage, Various, Old/Original Schedule Entry (Scheduled Ancient Monuments Description), 22583 (Scheduling Record). SCH4606.

<6> English Heritage, Various, Schedule Entry (Scheduled Ancient Monuments Amendment), 22583 (Scheduling Record). SCH2950.

<7> Council for British Archaeology, Various, CBA Group 5 Archaeological Newsletter, No.9, p.10 (Newsletter). SCH547.

<8> Longley D, 1977-1978, Longley Archive, /no.73 (Paper Archive). SCH2005.