Monument record 1552/1/1 - Beech Hall School cremation

<1> Chester Archaeological Society, Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society, Unknown 1961 48/43-5 (Journal/Periodical). SCH1595.

Bronze Age inurned cremation. Found in June 1960 by workmen carrying out excavations for a swimming pool in the grounds of Beech Hall School, Tytherington. The urn was c.2ft below the present ground surface, inverted on a gravel layer. There may originally have been a barrow covering it but all trace of this has been lost with the previous levelling of the site for tennis courts. The urn is a plain collared urn, of reddish brown fabric & has been dated to the middle Bronze Age. The bones were identified by Professor A J E Cave of Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, as an adult of small stature and probably female

<2> Harris, B.E. (ed), 1987, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I, 1/85 1987 (Book). SCH3556.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ97SW6/1962 (Index). SCH2487.

<4> 1960, The County Express (Macclesfield), 16th June (Book). SCH3113.

<5> Rowley G 1982, 1982, Macclesfield in Prehistory, Rowley G 1982 /23,26+28 (Book). SCH2062.

<6> National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, 1992, An Archaeological Assessment of a Proposed Development on Land at Tytherington, Macclesfield., R2023/2 (Client Report). SCH4188.

<7> Longley D, 1977-1978, Longley Archive, /no.36 (Paper Archive). SCH2005.