| Abstract: |
Photographic Surveys will be undertaken at eleven assets along the route of Poynton Relief Road. Three assets will be protected during construction. Earthwork Surveys will be undertaken at two assets. Archaeological evaluation will be undertaken at one asset. Targeted archaeological excavation will be undertaken in two assets in the location of field and township boundaries, which are to be affected
by the construction works. Strip, Map and Record Excavation and watching brief will be undertaken at one location, land affected by the A523/Bonis Hall Lane junction works in the areas around the Scheduled Bowl Barrow. Asset 21: there was no evidence of the field boundary earthwork in the targeted excavation area, although the analytical landscape survey identified it as almost imperceptible at the location the area was excavated. However, a shallow palaeochannel was identified at the northern end of the area, crossing it on an east/west-alignment, this did appear to be entirely natural in origin, having likely formed from a natural depression in the field.
Asset 27: the township boundary, between the Townships of Woodford and Adlington, recorded through analytical landscape survey, had been heavily truncated by being cleaned out as part of the installation of the haul road. As such, only limited remains of the township boundary survived to be excavated. What was excavated did not produce any remains of significance, although a section was
recorded through the feature.
Asset 28: related to the putative location of a Roman road leading between Buxton and Cheadle. Although evidence of cobbles were identified in the base of all five trenches, these did not appear to form a surface and likely related to the base of an earlier track leading to Shirdfold Farm, as depicted on historic mapping, due to the presence of brick rubble mixed with the cobbles in the deposit. There
was no evidence of any Roman activity related to the remains identified.
Area around Asset 35: limited archaeological remains were identified in the strip, map and record area around Asset 35, a scheduled bowl barrow (NMR: 1007379), comprising two discrete features and two linear features. Only one of the features contained any dating evidence, ditch 3503 to the south of Bonis Hall Lane, which
contained a small assemblage of post-medieval ceramics. The three remaining features were entirely undated, and their function could not be discerned, they were unlikely to relate to the nearby scheduled bowl barrow, however, this cannot be entirely discounted. |
