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MONUMENT NO. 78131

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Bronze Age bowl barrow surviving as an earthwork.

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[SJ 9587 7663] Tumulus [OE] (1)

B.A. Barrow at Ginclough. (2)

At SJ 95857662. A turf covered round barrow.
Diam. 22.0 m. Ht. 1.4 m.
Published survey (25") revised. (3)

SJ 9586 7663. Bowl barrow 100m W of Black Rock Farm. Scheduled RSM
No 22568. A bowl barrow located on a slight knoll on the hillside
below a broad shelf. A sub-circular mound of earth and stones is
22.5m in diameter and up to 1.6m high. Undocumented investigation
of the barrow's centre has left a hollow 4m in diameter and 0.3m deep approached by a shallow trench from the SW. (4)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1954

( 2) General reference

Prehistoric Cheshire 1940 Schedule V (W.J. Varley)

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 TPW 20-APR-64

(4) General reference

English Heritage Scheduling Amendment 20/10/93

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