Monument record 461 - Undated findspot in Warrington

<1> Ordnance Survey 2nd edition 6 inch to 1 mile - Lancashire, 1884 (Maps and Plans). SCH3845.

Human remains found here AD 1843 (SJ 62058725). Also Map records "Human remains & sword blades found here 1845" (SJ 62198730)

<2> Beamont W, 1889, A History of Latchford, /86 (Book). SCH71.

Probing in 1852 by Dr Kendrick revealed a slab of red sandstone 5ft x2ft 3ins, beneath which were found fragments of human bone with a young adult male skull (head to the west).No traces of wood or nails of a coffin seen. Found in a croft called Brown Field at the back of Plague House, Wash Lane (RN:459)

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ68NW11/1961 (Index). SCH2487.

Account suggests a hasty plague burial, but the details indicate that it is prehistoric or Roman

<4> Chester Archaeological Society, Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society, Kendrick J 1885 3/298-99 (Journal/Periodical). SCH1595.

Kendrick suggests that this field, Broom Field, was where the plague victims were buried. He suggests the bones he found had been disturbed by labourers in 1843, who are said to have found 3 human skeletons covered with a flat ashlar stone, without an inscription or mark