Monument record 571/1/3 - Southworth Hall Barrow

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ69 SW 13 (Index). SCH2487.

Tumulus

<2> The British Archaeological Trust, 1981-Present, Rescue News, no.28 p.8 (Newspaper-Magazine). SCH2860.

Complete excavation in 1980. Phase 1 consisted of a small mound with central empty pit, with an unurned cremation off-centre and another cremation in the surrounding ditch. In phase 2 the first mound was levelled and at its centre two concentric rings of stakes supporting a wooden structure were erected and burnt. Turf mound twice diameter of original sand mound was built and surrounded by a ditch. Nine cremations in this mound, three collared urns (one of which was accompanied by a small decorated globular pot), two with globular pots and the remainder without vessels.

<3> Longley D, 1979, Prehistoric Sites in Cheshire, p.34 (Report). SCH2719.

The Winwick Barrow Cemetery, No.112 (SJ6189 9358). Round earthern mound thirty centimetres high and thirty metres in diameter. This mound is beginning to be seriously eroded by ploughing. There is a suggestion that an urn found at Southworth may have come from this mound. This cannot be demonstrated and the urn is now lost.

<4> Longley D, 1977-1978, Longley Archive, no.112 (Paper Archive). SCH2005.

A field visit in 1978 records that the mound is situated in land of undulating character and eroded by ploughing to such an extent that it is hard to distinguish. An urn and palstave found in 1887 (see 5) were found in the area, but there is no evidence to connect either of the two finds with the mound. The urn is now lost, but the palstave is site no.570 (CHER 579).

<5> British Archaeological Association, 1860, Proceedings of the Association (1860), p.295-7 (Article in Journal). SCH9013.

<6> Freke, D.J and Holgate, R, 1987, Excavations at Winwick, Cheshire in 1980: 1. Excavation of Two Second Millennium B.C. Mounds, Vol 70, p.9-30 (Article in Journal). SCH8278.

A badly ploughed mound on Southworth Hall farm threatened by Sand quarrying was totally excavated between March and October 1980 by the University of Liverpool rescue archaeology Unit. The Barrow had two phases of construction, first a dtiched mound of sand followed by a much larger ditched turf mound built over the first, levelled mound. Inder the first mound was a deep pit which had contained an inner, lined pit and the second turf mound covered a burnt structure of three concentric circles of stakes. Two creamtions were recovere from the earlier phase and ten from the later with three collared urns and three small accessory vessels. Over and around the mound was an extensive later (possible pre-conquest) cemetery ( See CHER625/1)

<7> Evans J, 1881, The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments, of Great Britain And Ireland (Book). SCH254.

A badly ploughed mound on Southworth Hall Farm threatened by sand quarrying was totally excavated between March and October 1980. There were two phases of construction, first a ditched mound of sand followed by a much larger ditched turf mound built over the first, levelled mound. Under the first mound was a large deep pit which had contained an inner, lined pit; and the second, turf mound covered a burnt structure of three concentric circles of stakes. Two cremations were recovered from the earlier phase and ten from the later, with three collared urns and three small accessory vessels. A pit filled with burnt stones, charcoal and fragments of pottery was found eleven metres outside the second ditch. Over and round the mound was an extensive cemetery, for which circumstantial evidence suggests a pre-Conquest date (see CHER 625/1).