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Yearns Low
Hob Uid: 78134
Location : Cheshire East Rainow
Grid Ref : SJ9643675969
Summary : Bronze Age bowl barrow surviving as an earthwork. Secondary Roman artefacts including glass beads, coins and bones were found in the 19th century suggesting a burial. Scheduled.
More information : [SJ 9643 7596] Tumulus [O.E.] (1). The tumulus near Yanslow Farm was investigated some years ago, when some Roman coins, glass beads, and bones were found in it (2). Bronze Age barrow (3)(4) (2-4). A hollowed out round barrow. Diam. 20.0 m. Ht. 1.3m. Published survey (25") revised (5). SJ 9644 7596. Yearn's Low bowl barrow. Scheduled RSM No 22567. The mound is up to 1.5m high with a diameter of 19m. A hollow 0.8m deep in the centre is the result of 19th century investigations and a trench 0.5m deep to the N is the result of a small excavation of the 1970s. The antiquarian investigation recovered Roman coins, glass beads and some bones. No finds are recorded from the more recent excavation, which was abandones shortly after it began due to a change in the monument's ownership. Two drystone walls cross the barrow and meet SE of its summit (6). The Bronze Age bowl barrow remains extant as a low earthwork mound on lidar imagery and the latest 2011 vertical aerial photography, and was mapped as part of the Cheshire National Mapping Programme project. The mound is around thirteen metres in diameter and the central hollow mentioned by Authority 6 is also visible (7-8).

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Source details : OS 6" 1954
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Source details : Rambles Round Macclesfield 1878 16 (J.D. Sainter)
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Source details : Corr. 6" (G. Webster, 1949)
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Source details : F1 TPW 20-APR-64
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Source Number : 6
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Source details : English Heritage Scheduling Amendment 20/10/93
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Source Number : 7
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Source details : LIDAR SJ9675 Environment Agency FIRST RETURN 19-22-APR-2006
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Source Number : 8
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Source details : Next Perspectives APGB Imagery SJ9675 08-APR-2011
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : Bronze Age
Monument End Date : -700
Monument Start Date : -2600
Monument Type : Bowl Barrow
Evidence : Earthwork

Monument Period Name : Roman
Display Date : Roman
Monument End Date : 410
Monument Start Date : 43
Monument Type : Inhumation
Evidence : Find, Conjectural Evidence

Monument Period Name : Uncertain
Display Date : Uncertain
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Monument Type : Pit
Evidence : Earthwork

Components and Objects:

Period : Roman
Component Monument Type : Inhumation
Object Type : BEAD, ANIMAL REMAINS, COIN
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Related Records from other datasets:

External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : CH 54
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 22567
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Cheshire)
External Cross Reference Number : MCH6983
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SJ 97 NE 3
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1800-01-01
End Date : 1899-12-31

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Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1964-04-20
End Date : 1964-04-20

Associated Activities :
Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 2015-07-08
End Date : 2017-02-28

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Yearns Low