Source/Archive record SCH8707 - Assessment of Suggested Fort Site, Eccleston Hill

Assessment of earthworks on Eccleston Hill initially reported on by T.Welsh (SCH8706). This report offers a different interpretation for these earthworks, previously conjectured to potentially represent Iron Age/Roman fortifications or hill fort. The study centres on the sunken way that marks the line of the early modern road running south from Chester to a cross-roads with Rake Lane on Eccleston Hill and summises that the surrounding earthworks result from successive changes to the landscape occurring from the eighteenth century onwards, including changes to field boundaries, creation of parcels of woodland, and major alterations to the local road network.