More information : SJ 4636 5352. Bowl barrow in Carden Park. Scheduled RSM No 23635. A bowl barrow located within a golf course in Carden Park on a saddle of higher ground to the south of The Birches wood. It has an oval sand and earthen mound up to 1.5m high with maximum dimensions of 32m by 25m (1).
An extant earthwork mound centred at SJ 4634 5354, possibly the Bronze Age bowl barrow described by Authority 1, is visible on lidar imagery and the latest 2010 vertical aerial photography and was mapped as part of the Cheshire National Mapping Programme project. The feature consists of an ovoid mound with a long axis of 29.4m and a low scarp around 3m to the south potentially representing a further, now levelled part of the barrow (2-3). |