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Monument Type(s):

• ENCLOSURE (Unknown date)

Protected Status:

• SHINE (Unvalidated): Rectangular cropmark enclosure complex of unknown date, Black Lodge, Buckworth

Full description

1. Enclosures. Sketched on to CCC overlay 08/03/1993 by R Desmond.

2. An area of possible settlement enclosures or field boundaries, which may be Iron Age to Roman in date, is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs to the north west of Buckworth, centred at TL 13963 77210. The site comprises a number of conjoined and overlapping ditched, rectilinear, enclosures, some fragmentary and some complete. The features may be related to settlement or may be field boundaries. They are visible over an area measuring approximately 370 m by 220 m and are truncated by a modern field boundary. Medieval ridge and furrow is visible across the site and probably postdates it. These features were recorded from EH Reconnaissance aerial photographs of 2011.

3. Series of overlapping enclosures, trackways and linear features visible on aerial imagery taken in 2009, 2011, 2015 and 2020 indicating a well preserved multi phase settlement. Images from 2009 and 2011 indicate a good survival of features in the southern half of the site while 2015 and 2020 show linear features across a wider area.

<1> Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SCB8543.

<2> English Heritage, NMR 27072_001-010 29-JUN-2011 (Aerial Photograph). SCB65944.

<3> Historic England, 2022, Historic England Aerial Photograph Explorer, 27072_005; 29468_018; 20912_052; 33975_030 (Website). SCB74356.

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