More information : ['A' SJ 8088 5590, 'B' SJ 8083 5581] Tumuli [G.T.] (1)
Urns & c found [T.1] [Siting symbol corresponds to barrow 'B'
Neither barrow shown.] (2)
There are two mounds in a field near the Lawton Arms. The more
easterly ['A'] has been cut through by the New-castle-Sandbach
road. (3)
[No further information in O.S. Name Book.] (3)
There is no trace of barrow 'A'. The site is occupied by a petrol
filling station. Barrow 'B', its western slopes much mutilated,
is 1.4m high and grass covered. To the south is another barrow
('C' SJ 8085 5573), 1.0m high. The S.W. quadrant has been
destroyed by a railway cutting and the remainder spread by
ploughing.
Published survey (25", 1961) revised. (4)
(Tumulus 'B') Church Lawton North. A two-phase ditched sand barrow 16m in diameter with a maximum height of 1.40m. A boat shaped central pit with wooden lid may once have contained a crouched inhumation. Eighteen cremation pits of various sizes were dug into the mound, four of which were outside the ditch and possibly secondary. Cremations were largely inurned - at least two may have been placed in sacks. Two pits contained empty food vessels and one
a complete biconical urn, full of cremated bone. Two pits contained
flint tools: one plano-convex knife and one complete battle axe.
(Tumulus 'C') Church Lawton South. A sand barow partially surrounded by a small turf wall and enclosed by a circular setting of
nine massive erratic boulders. A possible mortuary structure of turf
and daub in the centre of the mound contained one fragment of cremated human bone, possibly indicating burning and removal of remains. No other cremations or inhumations were found. The overall
diameter of mound and circle is 22-25m. (5) |