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<< Other Photo Pages >> Bucklow Hill - Round Barrow(s) in England in Cheshire

Submitted by Andy B on Wednesday, 26 August 2015  Page Views: 3611

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bucklow Hill
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.7 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Cheshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Knutsford
Map Ref: SJ7235582567
Latitude: 53.339276N  Longitude: 2.416647W
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Bucklow Hill submitted by dodomad : Urned cremation from Cheshire. Found during recent excavations along the proposed route of the A556 Knutsford to Bowdon Relief Road. To find out more follow this link Image copyright: Wessex Archaeology (Wessex Archaeology), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A team from the Wessex Archaeology Sheffield Office have been working in Cheshire, carrying out investigations along the course of the proposed A556 Knutsford to Bowdon Relief Road, currently being constructed by Costain Group plc on behalf of the Highways England.

The area around Bucklow Hill has proved to be of particular interest, due to the uncovering of a ‘funerary landscape’. A ring-ditch measuring 25 m in diameter, probably a ploughed-out Bronze Age round barrow, served as the focus for a range of funerary rituals, including the burial of urned and bagged cremations. Twelve east–west aligned inhumation graves were also found, although the acidic soil conditions meant that not even the skeletons had survived. A second cluster of cremation graves, all unurned, was found 80 m from the ring-ditch, providing further evidence that the use of Bucklow Hill for ritual activities was a complex and drawn-out affair.

Although not particularly high, Bucklow Hill provides good views across to the Peak District and the moors north-west of Manchester, where prehistoric burial sites are already known. It seems likely that the hill was deliberately chosen for similar rituals because of the sense of connection it offered with important places in the wider landscape.

Grave goods or other artefacts were largely absent on the site, and so we intend to use radiocarbon dating to better understand when, and for how long, the different burial rites were undertaken on the hill. Excavated evidence of prehistoric Cheshire is very scarce, and the work at Bucklow Hill represents a rare example of a significant funerary site investigated using modern excavation techniques.

By Chris Swales, Wessex Archaeology Project Manager
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http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/blogs/news/2015/08/04/funerary-landscape-bucklow-hill

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Bucklow Hill
Bucklow Hill submitted by dodomad : Flint from Cheshire. Found during recent excavations along the proposed route of the A556 Knutsford to Bowdon Relief Road. To find out more follow this link Image copyright: Wessex Archaeology (Wessex Archaeology), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Bucklow Hill
Bucklow Hill submitted by dodomad : A556 site photo Recent excavations along the proposed route of the A556 Knutsford to Bowdon Relief Road. Cheshire. To find out more follow this link Image copyright: Wessex Archaeology (Wessex Archaeology), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Bucklow Hill
Bucklow Hill submitted by dodomad : Bagged cremation from Cheshire. Found during recent excavations along the proposed route of the A556 Knutsford to Bowdon Relief Road. To find out more follow this link Image copyright: Wessex Archaeology (Wessex Archaeology), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Bucklow Hill Wessex Archaeology report by Andy B on Wednesday, 11 March 2020
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Daniel, P., (2016). A556 Knutsford to Bowdon Improvement, Cheshire. Archaeological Strip, Map and Excavation: Post-excavation Assessment. Wessex Archaeology.

Wessex Archaeology carried out a strip, map and sample exercise on 9ha of land on the course of the proposed A556 Knutsford to Bowdon relief road. The strip, map and sample area was bounded to the north by Bucklow Hill Lane and to the south by the A50. The most significant set of remains focussed on a 22m-diameter penannular ring ditch with associated deposits of cremated human bone. A group of 12 undated probable inhumation graves was focussed on the ring ditch. A second set of cremation-related deposits was located 90m to the east, but lacked any surviving earthwork. Radiocarbon dates indicate the ring ditch dates to the late Early Bronze Age, with both of the cremation clusters being a little later: Early-Middle Bronze Age. An early medieval date for several features is suggested by the types of cereal present found within their fills. In two instances, this has been confirmed by radiocarbon assay, which reveals pits were dug on the Site in the 6th and 7th centuries cal. AD. One of the confirmed and several of the potential early medieval features focus on the ring ditch, including a pit containing evidence of ironsmithing. Away from the ring ditch, remains of a rudimentary circular structure with a central fire pit may also belong to the early medieval period. Numerous 'potboiler' pits were recorded, although most were artefactually sterile and remain undated. A later field system was found to correspond with features shown on the 1848 tithe map.

https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/issue.xhtml?recordId=1168199
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    Re: Bucklow Hill Wessex Archaeology report by Andy B on Wednesday, 11 March 2020
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    Construction of the ring ditch radiocarbon dated to 1740-1635 ( 68% ) Early Bronze Age three dated cremation burials dated to 1620-1535 cal BC at 68%. This indicates that the ring ditch was constructed first and that the cremation burials were added up to a century later.
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