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MONUMENT NO. 76413

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Bronze Age bowl barrow surviving as an earthwork. Site of alleged barrows (2) Not antiquities. Urns & human remains found.

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[SJ 8563 7453] Tumulus [O.E.]
[SJ 8567 7446] Tumulus [O.E.] (1)

Probable encrusted Bronze Age urn found in grounds of Birtles Hall
where there are numerous mounds - some tumuli and some natural.
Other urns with calcined human remains have also been found here.
[See SJ 87 NE 3 for possible connection] (2-3)

The OS has applied 'Tumulus' to, in one case, a tree-ring (the
more northerly feature) and, in the other, an irregular depression,
both of which are situated on large natural mounds.
No barrow was found in the grounds of Birtles Hall. (4)

SJ 8563 7452. Bowl barrow 230m WSW of Birtles Hall. Scheduled RSM
No 22577. A bowl barrow located on the summit of a natural rise,
comprising a slightly oval earthen mound up to 1m high with maximum
dimensions of 20m by 19m. (5)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1910

( 2) General reference

Corr. 6" (C. Webster 1949)

( 3) General reference

Hist of Ches 3 1882 536 and 711 (Ormerod)

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 JR 16-APR-64

(5) General reference

English Heritage Scheduling Amendment 12/1/94

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