Monument record 435/0/11 - Roman burial, pottery, flint tools, Stockton Heath Area B

<1> Samuels J, 1981, Stockton Heath, Warrington - Level 3 Archive (Unpublished Document). SCH2991.

A series of trial excavations was carried out by Liverpool University Rescue Archaeology Unit in advance of building development in January 1981. Two areas were investigated: Area B (SJ 6147 8658) was the triangle of land bounded by the Manchester Ship Canal, the Bridgewater Canal and the course of the Lumb Brook. Neither excavation located any Romano-British features. In several cases the subsoil had been disturbed probably by earlier quarrying activity. A flint leaf-shaped arrowhead and a flint flake were found in unstratified contexts in Area B.

Also, in a letter dated 25/03/1981 from J.Samuels, Asst. Director of the excavations to the Chief Engineer of The Manchester Ship Canal Company, it is reported that two sherds of Roman pottery, a flint arrowhead? And the skeleton of a baby thought to have been buried in Roman times were recovered during archaeological investigations on the north bank of the Ship Canal adjacent to Northwich Road Bridge. (Letter included in SCH2991). Another letter dated 27/03/1981 to the Curator of Warrington Museum and Art Gallery says that the skeleton found near the ship canal is undatable due to disturbance from a rabbit burrow. (Letter also included in SCH2991)