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<< County Introductions >> County Guides No.4 - Cheshire

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When reading through books on the history of Cheshire, prehistory is often consigned to a couple of pages or a small chapter at most, and in general historians have led us to believe that nothing of real importance occurred in the county until the coming of the Romans. However, upon further investigation it becomes quite clear that there was once, and indeed still is, a rich prehistoric landscape, particularly in the east of the county on the western slopes of the Pennines around Macclesfield and the eastern slopes of the mid-Cheshire Ridge near Delamere.

The main problem with Cheshire from an archaeological point of view is that its soils are highly suited for growing crops and keeping livestock but while this has added to the prosperity of the county over the years, it has sadly impacted greatly upon the prehistoric archaeology. In areas where the soil is rich and fertile, the land has been intensively farmed leading to the partial or even total destruction of many ancient settlement sites and ritual monuments.

However, for those who know where to look there remains a rich prehistoric landscape. Cheshire was highly significant long before the coming of the Romans - with the Neolithic came the construction of the huge chambered long cairn of The Bridestones, possessing features found at no other site on the English mainland; with the Bronze Age, the development of the largest known surviving prehistoric copper mine in England at Alderley Edge, and in the Iron Age it has, Lindow Man, or 'Pete Marsh' as he has come to be known, one of the most famous archaeological discoveries ever made in Britain.

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