Monument record 2173 - Rostherne Mere Field System

<1> Higham N J, 1984-9, Professor Nick Higham's Aerial Photographs, J87/1/18-19 (Aerial Photograph). SCH7659.

An arrangement of ditched boundaries comprising a central west to east ditch with four north to south ditches crossing it at right angles. Also an area of ridge and furrow to the south of the central ditch.

<2> Leah, MD; Wells, CE; Appleby, C; Huckerby, E, 1997, The Wetlands of Cheshire (North West Wetlands Survey 4), p.97 & p.99 (Monograph). SCH3260.

An extensive field system on the southern shores of Rostherne Mere. It covers c.10 hectares and includes lynchets and ridge and furrow (photographs by M Leah- 4.032 & 4.034-9).

<3> Bluesky International Ltd, 2010, 2010 Bluesky Survey (Aerial Photograph). SCH5444.

A regular pattern of parallel narrow ridges arranged at ninety degrees to a series of curving ditches and banks. Further ditches and banks are visible as soilmarks in a field to the immediate south-west.

<4> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R 04/06/2013 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

The ridges could have been created by steam ploughing, but its probable, that in this instance, they form part of an extensive water meadows.

<5> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 343/1&2 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

Predate the arrangement of field boundaries depicted on the 1848 tithe map.