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MONUMENT NO. 78310

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Bronze Age bowl barrow surviving as an earthwork. Excavation recovered an urned cremation.

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SJ 91387484. The remains of a Bronze Age cremation in a
collared urn, were recovered from the spoil of a Home Guard trench
running through a round barrow on a knoll north of Beech Hall in
1973. The finds, comprising nineteen small fragments of pottery
and a small quantity of calcined bones, are in the Grosvenor Museum,
Chester (Acc No Z 56) (1)

SJ 9138 7490. Bowl barrow in Lavenham Close, Tytherington. Scheduled
RSM No 22592. A bowl barrow located on a local high point amongst
housing development. A low oval earthen mound with poorly defined
edges up to 0.5m high with maximum dimensions of 18m x 15m. (2)

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Ches Arch Bull 2 1974 36 (P J Davey)

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English Heritage Scheduling Amendment 28/9/93

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