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MONUMENT NO. 72865

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Bronze Age bowl barrow surviving as an earthwork.

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(SJ 653694) Tumulus (NR) (1)

SJ 65336939 (2). A large tumulus on the highest point of the
ridge running parallel to the Weever (3). The possible site was
sandier than the rest of the field when investigated in 1972.
A water tower stood here (SJ 65356941 Water Tower OS 25"
1898) until about twenty years ago (2). (2-3)

SJ 6534 6940. Bowl barrow 160m NE of Moultonbank Farm. Scheduled
RSM No 22596. A bowl barrow located on the summit of a glacial mound.
It has an earthen mound 35m in diameter and up to 1.5m high. (4)

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( 1) General reference

OS 1" 1st Edn 1842

( 2) General reference

Ches Sites & Mons Rec 1979 Vale Royal Dist

( 3) General reference

Hist of Ches 3 1819 137 (G Ormerod)

(4) General reference

English Heritage Scheduling Amendment 28/9/93

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