Monument record 873/1/6 - Summerhouse Bank

<1> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Turner RC (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

Feature variously described as a mound or sunken round ditched enclosure stands on top of the hill of Summerhouse Bank. Variously suggested to be Bronze Age barrow or cockpit, but from placename liable to be remains of folly (summerhouse in the park of Utkinton Hall).

<2> Environment Agency, 2003-2020, Environment Agency LiDAR Surveys, 1m DSM Composite (11/01/2021) (Digital Archive). SCH7819.

Visible as an earthwork: a circular depression surrounded by a sub-circular mound on or near the summit of Summerhouse bank.

<3> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 150/3 1838 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

The earthwork is located at the eastern edge of Summerhouse Field.

<4> Dodgson J McN, 1970-2, 1981, The Place-Names of Cheshire, Vol.III p.299 (Book). SCH3228.

Summerhouse Bank is depicted and labelled on Bryant's 1831 Map of the County Palatine of Chester (see 5).

<5> Bryant, A., 1831, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2114.

<6> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ5564 1875 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

This map depicts a trig point at this location.