Source/Archive record SCH8267 - An Archaeological Watching Brief on Land Adjacent to Lodmore House, Lodmore Lane, Burleydam, Cheshire

Archaeological watching brief, undertaken in April and May 2017, on land adjacent to Lodmore House, Lodmore Lane, Burleydam, during ground reductions associated with the construction of a housing development. The watching brief monitored ground reduction in three areas of the site, where three separate blocks of buildings will be constructed, as well as an L-shaped plot of land between them where the car park and sewage treatment services will be located. A small square plot of land in the south-west corner of the site was also excavated, this will be the eventual site of the on-site gas tanks. The investigations identified the bases of three irregularly shaped ditches under the area of the car park. Each ditch contained a loosely compacted fill similar to the overlying topsoil. None of the ditches produced any artefactual evidence, they have been interpreted as the bases of former hedgerows. A small quantity of unstratified nineteenth to twentieth century pottery was recovered from topsoil across the site.