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Photo Pages: Church Lawton Barrows - Barrow Cemetery in England in Cheshire
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Submitted by vicky on Friday, 03 January 2003 Page Views: 6867
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 Site Name: Church Lawton Barrows Country: England County: Cheshire Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Crewe Nearest Village: Church Lawton
Map Ref: SJ809559 Landranger Map Number: 118
Latitude: 53.099954N Longitude: 2.28671W
Condition:| 5 | Perfect | | 4 | Almost Perfect | | 3 | Reasonable but with some damage | | 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site | | 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks | | 0 | No data. | | -1 | Completely destroyed |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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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 | | 0 | No data. |
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Accuracy:| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates | | 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map | | 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map | | 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village | | 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town | | 0 | no data |
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The barrow cemetery known as the Church Lawton Complex lies on land overlooking Hooze Hollow, near Alsager. It originally consisted of three Bronze Age mounds, but today only two (II and III) survive. Church Lawton I was cut through during the building of the A501 Newcastle to Sandbach road sometime before 1881 and what remained of it was completely destroyed during the construction of a petrol station.
Church Lawton III (South) is now nothing more than a slight hump in a grassy field, but it is one of Cheshire’s most important sites, for beneath the barrow is one of the county’s few known stone circles (see Church Lawton Stone Circle).
The second existing mound, Church Lawton II (North), like III, was also constructed in two phases. The first consisted of a gravely sub-soil and sand mound surrounded by a ditch, approximately 16m in diameter and 1.4m high. In the centre of this mound was a ‘boat-shaped’ pit sealed with a wooden lid which proved to be filled with nothing more than sand. However the excavator believed it could easily have housed a crouched inhumation as any bones would have rotted away in the acid soil.
Eighteen cremation pits were discovered in the mound itself along with four outside the ditch. Some of these contained the remains of foetuses and infants, but the majority were those of adults. Also found were two Collared Urns, one with a cremation and one without, and two Food Vessels, one inverted and one upright. Two of the cremations outside the ditch were placed in sacks, one accompanied by a flint knife and the other by a battle-axe.
During the second phase the mound was greatly enlarged with sand and turf to a diameter of around 30m. Only one cremation was associated with this phase although there had clearly been a number of fire pits and pyres in the eastern section. Pottery was also found close to the surface, but this was badly plough damaged. Interestingly, according to the Victoria County History sherds of Beaker pottery are also reported to have been recovered from the ground surface upon which the barrow was constructed.
Access
Now destroyed, Church Lawton I once stood under what is now the A5011 road and a petrol station. Church Lawton II is on the junction of the A50, A5011 and B5077 near Alsager. Heading towards Alsager it can be seen in a field on the right just past the crossroads, taking the B5077. Church Lawton III is located in a field 100m south east of III close to the A5011.
References
R. McNeil. “Notes on Church Lawton North and South”, Cheshire Archaeological Bulletin, Volume 8 (1982)
D.M.Longley “Prehistory” in C.R.Elrington (ed) “The Victoria History of the County of Chester, volume 1, Oxford University Press (1987)
Note: Please note this barrow is located on private land but can be easily viewed from the nearby road.
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 Church Lawton Barrows submitted by ShropshireTraveller
Church Lawton II barrow remains visible as a mound in the rear of the field on the NW corner of the crossroads. Viewed from the south, not as much shows, but from the east (as in here) it is much more noticeable.
 Church Lawton Barrows submitted by ShropshireTraveller
Church Lawton I barrow - partially destroyed by the Newcastle Under Lyme - Sandbach route, and then completely destroyed by the addition of the petrol station, left.
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Re: Church Lawton Barrows (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Friday, 25 September 2009 | | is worried about the bronze age burial mound at church lawton and the building work going on...skips and concrete on mound and field..people useing site as an access route, hope the news isnt bad..theres already been digging on the perimitor.. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Church Lawton Barrows (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Thursday, 17 December 2009 | | The building work is getting worse. Where's the archeology team? | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Church Lawton Barrows (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Monday, 29 March 2010 | | Building work still going on, and seems to be larger than what permission was granted for, why have not thr Barrows been brought under the protection of National Heritage or something similar, why has not the Council taken an interest, The Barrows will disappear forever unless something is done, mark my words. | [ Reply to This ]
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