Monument record 437 - Bronze Age cremations

1829 - 2 inhumation burials,each in a cist of apparently burnt stone.Amongst the bones were two small urns containing ashes & charcoal. Probably found in the grounds of Appleton Hall c.11yds E.of King Street Roman Road, by Matthew Lyon (1). Stones of the cist were water worn & tool marked.The bodies lay on sand 16ins below the surface & were 2 feet apart.A few urns were found, not far from the cists, containing bones, ashes & charcoal.The urns measured c.4 x 3ins & one had a 'pinched pattern'.Wrongly identified as Roman (2).Probably Bronze Age. Burials described as Romano-British by Thompson Watkin (3). Incense cup or small urn, 3.5ins high, of plain type, found with another in 1829 with burnt bones, charcoal & flints (4). 'Pygmy cup' from Stretton (5). Ornamented urn is displayed in Warrington Museum-donated by Dr Kendrick 1857. Museum also has human remains & charcoal fron the site (6). c.1848 - A third burial was found further N.than previous find on the W.of the Roman road.Illustration (1). Site now housing estate and golf course. Illustration of bipartite vessel (9).

<1> Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 1883 -, Transactions of the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 2/33 Hume A 1849 (Journal/Periodical). SCH3293.

<2> Beamont W, 1876, An Account of the Roman Station at Wilderspool, /23 (Book). SCH234.

<3> Thompson, F.H., 1964, A History of Cheshire. Volume Two: Roman Cheshire, /66+316 1886 (Book). SCH2862.

<4> Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 1883 -, Transactions of the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 50/103 1934 (Journal/Periodical). SCH3293.

<5> Varley, W. J. & Jackson, J. W., 1940, Prehistoric Cheshire, /schedule iv (Book). SCH2692.

<6> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ68SW1/1964 (Index). SCH2487.

<7> Farrer W & Brownbill J, 1906-14, The Victoria County History of the County of Lancaster, 1/240 1906 (Book). SCH3636.

<8> Grealey S, 1976, The Archaeology of Warrington's Past, /82 no.20 (Book). SCH3046.

<9> Harris, B.E. (ed), 1987, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I, 1/82 Longley D 1987 (Book). SCH3556.

<10> Longley D, 1977-1978, Longley Archive, /no.53 (Paper Archive). SCH2005.