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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Sutton Hall
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.996 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Cheshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Macclesfield Nearest Village: Sutton
Map Ref: SJ925713 Landranger Map Number: 118
Latitude: 53.238674N Longitude: 2.113832W
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3	Reasonable but with some damage
2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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-1	Completely destroyed

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2 Access:

5	Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4	Short walk on a footpath
3	Requiring a bit more of a walk
2	A long walk
1	In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5	co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
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gritstone visited on 1st Jun 2020 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Not very impressive, but a nice easy walk with good local pubs close by.

BrownEdger visited on 21st Aug 2011 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 2 Access: 4

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**Sutton Hall** submitted by PaulM : This somewhat dilapidated barrow (now the resting place of a water trough) is located adjacent to the grounds of Sutton Hall (pricey country pub). NGR: SJ92497132 (map 118). It can be viewed from Bullocks Lane, Sutton (east of Macclesfield). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Round Barrow in Cheshire

Leaving Macclesfield towards The Forest, the first Parish you come to is that of Sutton. Travelling down Bullocks Lane motorists will come across a somewhat dilapidated Bronze Age barrow (now the resting-place of a water trough), in the field adjacent to the grounds of Sutton Hall.

The following account was relayed to members meeting of the Macclesfield Scientific Society in 1877 in a paper entitled ‘Grave Mound Exploration near Macclesfield’: ‘after a conversation with Miss Bent, and by the permission of Mr Thompstone, the large mound at the rear of Sutton Hall has been opened; there has always been much speculation as to its origin and purpose, and I had hoped by to-night to have been able to say something definite about it, but all I can say is that we have entered it by a trench some twelve feet long, six feet wide and eight feet deep, and have up to the present time found no remains. It is entirely composed of boulders, some split by the action of fire. The investigation will be continued.’

It was to be another 85 years before this happened when it was partially excavated in 1962 by James Forde-Johnston of Manchester University, who had investigated the mound at Gallowsclough in Delamere two years previously. He unearthed a few secondary cremations, but no primary burial and revealed that the mound had originally been around 100 yards in diameter, but was since substantially reduced with many of the river cobbles having been removed to the nearby farmyard. Despite being scheduled, in addition to the damage caused by the cattle that drink from the water tank, the site has suffered from other local wildlife activity. A badger sett can be seen to the south-east, while elsewhere rabbits have made their burrows.

Access

From Macclesfield take the road known as Byrons Lane (off the Macclesfield to Leek Road) towards Sutton. Just before you reach the canal bridge in Gurnet, take the right hand turn into Bullocks Lane. The barrow can either be viewed from the road (from just south of Sutton Hall) or from a public footpath which skirts the field to the east of the site at GR: SJ924715.

References

G. Rowley “Macclesfield in Prehistory” (1982)

D.M.Longley “Prehistory” in C.R.Elrington (ed) “The Victoria History of the County of Chester, volume 1, Oxford University Press (1987)

T.J.Smith “Grave Mound Exploration near Macclesfield”, Proceedings of the Macclesfield Scientific Society (1877-1878)

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