Monument record 1080/0/98 - Holmes Chapel Road

2 N-S aligned linear ditches (no.s 50 and 36). Ditch 50 was 0.5m wide with sloping sides and a U-shaped base, containing silt and sand, with small sherds of unidentifiable pottery. Ditch 36 had near vertical sides and a rounded base, with a clay silt fill and 3 unabraded sherds of Romano British pottery. The two ditches run parallel to each other and are cut by land drains and possible ridge and furrow. Possiby Roman in origin forming the edges of a trackway or land divisions (1).

<1> Gifford and Partners, 1998, Report on an Archaeological Watching Brief at Holmes Chapel Road, Middlewich, Cheshire., R2203 (Client Report). SCH4178.