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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bearhurst FarmCountry: England County: Cheshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Macclesfield Nearest Village: Henbury
Map Ref: SJ874720 Landranger Map Number: 118
Latitude: 53.244869N Longitude: 2.190274W
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 |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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. |
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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Round Barrow in Cheshire
This bowl barrow at Bearhurst Farm was examined by Gordon Rowley and D. Bethell in 1965 and 1966 and produced a number of interesting discoveries. Within the mound, which was 22m in diameter and 1.5m high, a Collared urn was found which was covered with a lid made from a round-based vessel. It contained the bones of a small-framed adult male about 18 years of age. The urn was of a very early date and closely related to a type of pottery known as Ferngate ware, a variant of the Neolithic Peterborough ware found at Woodhouse End in Gawsworth. It was round bottomed and not originally intended for funerary use. The cinerary urn stood in an ash-filled cremation pit.
In addition over one hundred flint flakes were discovered, scattered on the upper surface of the barrow ‘in an annular distribution, as if strewn around by a person standing in the centre of the mound’ as well as a crude leaf-shaped arrowhead. The urns are now in the Grosvenor Museum in Chester. .
Access
The barrow is located in a field close to the east of Bearhurst Lane (the road linking Pexhill Road to School Lane in Henbury). However, it is not visible from the Lane due to the height of the bank and hedge.
References
Cheshire County Sites and Monuments Record
D.M.Longley “Prehistory” in C.R.Elrington (ed) “The Victoria History of the County of Chester, volume 1, Oxford University Press (1987)
G. Rowley “Macclesfield in Prehistory” (1982)
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