Monument record 1343 - Large natural mound near Brook House Farm

<1b> Longley D, 1977-1978, Longley Archive, /no.565 1978 (Paper Archive). SCH2005.

Large mound in field on opposite side of lane from Brook House Farm. Possible Bronze Age barrow. Mound is c.40m diam x 2m high. Situated in area of gently undulating arable. Profile survey and photographs 1978.

<1a> Harris, B.E. (ed), 1987, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I, 1/85 Longley D 1987 (Book). SCH3556.

<2> Ormerod, G., 1882, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, 3/3 (Y) (Book). SCH1389.

Mound mentioned in Ormerod. After comment on Withington Hall barrows (RN: 1340/1) he notes "Further on, to the right of the road, is a larger one at a distance of about half a mile from it" (ie road he refers to is Holmes Chapel Road A535).

<3> Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit, 1991, Lapwing Lane, Chelford: Archaeological Evaluation (Client Report). SCH4199.

Archaeological evaluation of an area was undertaken in 1991 in advance of quarrying activity. The evaluation comprised map and documentary research, field inspection, and sample geophysical survey and trial excavation. The evaluation focused on the site and environs of the single recorded site known within the area, a potential Bronze Age barrow. A contour survey was undertaken for the alleged barrow and revealed a height of over 3m and a diameter of possibly 100m. This feature was also identified as a soilmark on air photographs along with other dark, circular rings which could have represented the remains of other barrows. Geophysical survey of some of these anomalies proved inconclusive, therefore trial excavations were undertaken to investigate the nature of the mound and ditch of the alleged barrow, also to investigate a further circular soil mark abutting it to the south-west. Four trenches 2m wide and between 40-75m in length were excavated, however no archaeological features of significance were encountered and the mound was proven to be natural.