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THE BULLSTONES

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Bronze Age round barrow surviving as a low earthwork mound with an upright slab. Excavation located a cremation burial with a cinerary urn, a flint knife and flint arrowhead.

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[SJ 95266740] (3a) B.A. cremation burial found in a
field near Clulow Cross. The o proton-cordon type (2) urn was
inverted and among the burnt bones (those of a child or young
person) was found a calcined flint knife and a flint arrowhead.
The burial was found about 3' below the ground surface and was
surrounded by a stone circle 20' in diameter (1), within which,
off centre, was a stone slab, embedded on edge, which may have
been a headstone, the remains of a free-standing stone, part of
a cist or part of a cromlech.
Material in the Grosvenor Museum, Chester.(3). (1-3)

The stone slab, which was identified from Sainter's (Auth. 1)
illustration, is at SJ 95566762. It is the most prominent
remaining feature, although its purpose could not be deduced. It
is 1.3m. long, 1.1m high and 0.6m. thick. See G.P. AO/64/223/5.
The stone is surrounded by the remains of an irregular circle of
comparatively small, round, stones.
It is not a retaining circle.

There are some indications that there was formerly a round
barrow, or cairn, at the site.

Surveyed at 1/2500. (4)

(SJ 9557 6761) Stone (NAT) (5)

SJ 9557 6761. The Bullstones bowl barrow. Scheduled RSM No 22584.
A bowl barrow located on a gently sloping hillside a little to the
E of the summit of Brown Hill. A low flat earth and stone mound up
to 0.25m high with maximum dimensions of 11.5m x 10m has at its
centre an upstanding gritstone slab 1.3m long by 1.1m high. The
barrow is surrounded on all sides except the E by a kerbing of
irregularly spaced small water-worn and erratic boulders. Limited
antiquarian investigation located the cremated remains of a child
or young person buried approximately 0.9m below the ground surface
and beneath an inverted urn. Amongst the ashes was a calcined flint
knife and flint arrowhead. The excavator also recorded a short
corridor of stones leading to a break in the kerbing which he
interpreted as an entrance. From the outer extremities of this
entrance, on either side, lines of stones curved outwards and
backwards to the mound, forming a pair of quadrants of sufficient
dimensions to accomodate four or five people standing upright. (6)

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( 1) General reference

Rambles Round Macclesfield 1878 35-6 figs (J.D.Sainter)

( 2) General reference

Prehistoric Cheshire 1940 Sched. IV (W.J.Varley)

( 3a) General reference

Grosvenor Museum Map.

( 3) Annotated Record Map

Corr 6" (L.J. Vigor 5.9.60)

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 JR 04-MAY-64

(5) General reference

OS 1:10000 1976

(6) General reference

English Heritage Scheduling Amendment 19/10/93

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