Summaries of development-led archaeological fieldwork in Cheshire, Warrington and Halton
Fieldwork Summary 2021-22 (pdf 144kb)
Fieldwork Summary 2020-21 (pdf 101kb)
Fieldwork Summary 2019-20 (pdf 198kb)
Fieldwork Summary 2018-19 (pdf 107kb)
Fieldwork Summary 2017-18 (pdf 109kb)
Fieldwork Summary 2016-17 (pdf 109kb)
Fieldwork Summary 2015-16 (pdf 108kb)
Fieldwork Summary 2014-15 (pdf 139kb)
Fieldwork Summary 2013-14 (pdf 131kb)
Fieldwork Summary 2012-13 (pdf 106kb)
Fieldwork Summary 2011-12 (pdf 106kb)
Fieldwork Summary 2010-11 (pdf 108kb)
Fieldwork Summary 2009-10 (pdf 127kb)
For information on unpublished archaeological sites please contact the Cheshire Historic Environment Record (HER)
Published reports on the results of development-led work
Below is a bibliography of published and forthcoming reports on
fieldwork in Cheshire, Warrington, and Halton.
Arrowsmith, P, 2019 Buildings depicted on tithe and other early maps in Cheshire: a review of the results of strip and record excavation in development-led projects, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 89, 105-144
Arrowsmith, P, and Power, D, 2012 Roman Nantwich: a salt-making settlement. Excavations at Kingsley Fields 2002, British Arch Reps, 557, Oxford
Cooper, O, and Speed, S, 2013 Town Farm Quarry, Norley, Cheshire, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 83, 13-36
Cuttler, R, Hewitson, C, Krawiec, K and Hepburn, S 2012 Gorse Stacks – 2000 years of quarrying and waste disposal in Chester. Brit Arch Reps, 563, Oxford
Daniel, A, Lopez-Doriga, I, McKinley, J I, and Mepham, L, 2020 Excavations at Bramhall, Stockport, 2015-2016 Bronze Age human remains and other features, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 90, 13-38
Daniel, P, 2021 What are the dead for? Bronze Age burials in a multi-period landscape at Bucklow Hill, Cheshire, Archaeological Journal. DOI: 10.1080/00665983.2021.1921413
Dodd, L, 2011 Investigating crane bases at Crane Wharf, Chester, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 82, 109-114
Dodd, L, 2020 Excavations at Chester: The northern and eastern extramural settlements; excavations 1990-2019 and other investigations, Archaeopress, 71, (Oxford)
Dodd, L, 2021 Excavations at Chester. Medieval and post-medieval development within the northern and eastern suburbs to c 1900, Archaeopress (Oxford)
Dodd, L, and Druce, A, 2017 Milton Street, Chester, 2016: a sample excavation of a Civil War ditch, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 86, 121-130
Dodd, L, Flavel, A, Grant, F, Shotter, D, and Ward, M, 2006 Excavation of a Roman roadside settlement at Stockton Heath, Warrington, 2007, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 81, 5-64
Dodd, L and others, 2014 Second Wood Street, Nantwich. Excavation of a medieval and early post-medieval salt works 2003-4, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 84, 39-110
Dodd, L, 2018 Discoveries at the Northgate steps, Chester, 2016: the north gate of the Roman fortress, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 88, 55-64
Dodd, L, 2020 Further discoveries at the Northgate steps, Chester, 2016-19, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 90, 161-166
Dodd, L, Ball, M, Druce, D, and Mason, D, 2018 Excavations at Hunter Street, Chester, 2014-15: new light on the retentura of the Roman fortress, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 88, 19-54
Fairburn, N, Bonner, D, Carruthers, W J, Dunn, G, Gale, R, and Ward, M, 2003 Birch Heath, Tarporley: excavation of a rural Romano-British settlement, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 77, 59-114
Fairburn, N, Bonner, D, Carruthers, W J, Gale, GR, Mattews K J, Morris, E, and Ward, M, 2003 Birch Heath, Tarporley: Brook House Farm, Bruen Stapleford: excavation of a 1st-millennium BC settlement, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 77, 9-57
Fletcher, M, 2008 Old Mill, Congleton, Cheshire – Brindley’s grand design?, Industrial Archaeol Rev, 30.1, 49-69
Garner, D J, 2007 Excavations at Chester: 25 Bridge Street, Chester; two thousand years of urban life in microcosm, Chester Archaeological Service Excavation and Survey Report, 14, Chester
Garner, D J, 2008 The Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement at Oversley Farm, Styal, Cheshire, Brit Arch Reps, 435
Garner, D and Reid, M, 2013 Roman Middlewich: re-assessing its form, function, and chronology, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 83, 37-93
Gregory, G, 2018 Woodford, the archaeology of a landscape and aerodrome, Greater Manchester’s past revealed, 21, Lancaster
Gregory, R, and Adams, M, 2019 Excavation at two cropmark enclosures at Puddington Lane, Burton, Wirral, 2010-2015, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 89, 1-70
Hayes, L, 2008 Excavations at the former Rylands garage site, City Road, Chester, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 99-138, 99-138
Heawood, R, 2003 Excavations at Warrington Friary 2000, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 77, 131-185
Heawood, R, Howard-Davis, C, Drury, D, and Krupa, M, 2004, Old Abbey Farm, Risley, Warrington; building survey and excavation at a medieval moated site, Lancaster Imprints, 11, Lancaster
Hewitson, C, and Scruby, A, 2011 The development of the waterfront on the River Dee: excavations at New Crane Street, Chester, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 82, 21-66
Howard-Davis, C, and Buxton, K, 2000 Excavations at Church Moss, Davenham, 1995-6, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 75, 1-18
Huntley, J, 2020 Development-led palaeoenvironmental work in Cheshire: a review, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 90, 123-160
Jones, W, Bradley, P, Elliot, L, and Grant, F, 2017 South Arclid quarry, Sandbach, 2009-2014: a Bronze Age burnet mound and other archaeological discoveries, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 86, 33-50
Leah, M, 2014 ‘Oakhanger Farm, Haslington, Cheshire: summary recording of the eighteenth-century hall, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 84, 129-35
Moore, B, and others, 2014 Southworth Quarry, Winwick. Excavation of a Roman rural settlement, 2013, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 84, 13-37
Nash, G, Owen, P, and Martin, G, 2011 Archaeological investigations at Tilston’s Yard, New Crane Street, Chester, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 82, 67-84
Philpott, R, 2018 An assessment of the utility of supervised metal detecting in development-led archaeological work in Cheshire, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 88, 87-114
Poole, B, 2011 The river Dee, Roodee, Cop and the workhouse: recent investigations, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 82, 85-108
Powell, A B, Higbee, L, Mepham, L, O’Neill, R, and Pelling, R 2018 Boughton retail Centre, Chester, 2012-13: a nineteenth-century tannery and other discoveries, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 87, 61-91
Raybould, O, 2019 Backford Hall: recent archaeological investigations, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 89, 85-104
Reid, M, 2011 The early modern port of Chester, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 82, 1-20
Reid, M, Brooks, I, Innes, J, Needham, S, Roe, F, Smith, Ian, Walsh, Sam and Woodward, A, 2014 Once a Sacred and Secluded Place: Early Bronze Age Monuments at Church Lawton, near Alsager, Cheshire, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 80, 237-277
Reid, M, Lageard, D, Mould, Q, Wild, F, 2004 Archaeological observations at Snow Hill car park, Nantwich, Cheshire, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 79, 25-36
Rogers, I R, and Garner, D J, 2007 Wilderspool and Holditch: Roman boom towns on the road north, Brit Arch Reps, 449, Oxford
Teasdale, A, Blinkhorn, B, Drinkall, G, Foulds, E M, Gardeiner, L F, and Gidney, L, 2018 Excavations at Saighton Army Camp, Huntington, 2011-2012: the medieval settlement, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 88, 65-86
Towle, A, and Hayes, L, 2009 Kicking over the traces: the challenges of investigating small medieval towns in Cheshire, in Surveys, excavations, and burgage plots; recent work on the medieval towns of North West England (ed Saunders, T), Archaeol North West (new series), 1, 31-42
Accommodating Prisoners of War: A Survey of the Weston Hostel, Industrial Archaeology Review, 44:2, 149-157, DOI: 10.1080/03090728.2022.2122680
Williams, M, and Reid, M, 2008 Salt: Life and industry, excavations at King Street, Middlewich in 2001, Brit Arch Reps, 456, Oxford
Wood, PN and Griffiths, DG, 2022 Excavations at Chester. Roman land division and a probable villa in the hinterland of Deva; excavations at Saighton army camp, Huntington, Chester, Archaeopress Roman Archaeology, 93 (Oxford)
Zant, J. 2015. Excavations on a Roman Salt-working Site at Jersey Way, Middlewich, Cheshire, Archaeological Journal,
Other reports
Ball, M, and Savage, S 2018, Unpublished coin hoards from Cheshire, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 87, 13-59
Beckley, R and Campbell, D 2014 Cheshire Past in 2013. Sites investigated, recorded and protected, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 84, 137-49
Beeton, B, and Savage, C 2020, Cheshire Past in 2019, Part 2: finds reported under the Portable Antiquities Scheme , J Chester Archaeol Soc, 90, 171-176
Beeton, B, 2021, Cheshire past in 2020, Part 2: finds reported under the Portable Antiquities Scheme , J Chester Archaeol Soc, 91, 253-266
Beeton, H, and Savage, C 2022, Cheshire Past in 2021, Part 2: finds reported under the Portable Antiquities Scheme , J Chester Archaeol Soc, 92, 56-73
Brennand, M, Chitty, G, and Nevell, M (eds), 2006 Research and archaeology in North West England: an archaeological research framework for North West England; volume 1, research assessment, Archaeology North West, 8, Manchester
Brennand, M, Chitty, G, and Nevell, M (eds), 2007 Research and archaeology in North West England: an archaeological research framework for North West England; volume 2, research agenda and strategy, Archaeology North West, 9, Manchester
Brown, F, and Howard-Davis, C, 2008, Norton Priory: Monastery to Museum, Excavations 1970-87, Lancaster Imprints, 16, Lancaster
Clarke, P M, 2020 Early medieval finds from Cheshire reported to the Portable Antiquities Scheme: a survey, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 90, 71-122
Cootes, K, Axworthy, J, Jordan, D, Thomas, M, and Carlin, R, 2021 Poulton, Cheshire: the excavation of a lowland Iron Age settlement, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 91, 103-178
Cootes, K, Axworthy, J, Jordan, D, Carlin, R, Thomas, M, and Brooks, I, 2022, Poulton, Cheshire: evidence of Neolithic activity, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 92, 5-12
Edwards, R, Nash, V, and Leah, M, 2018, Cheshire past in 2017, Part 1: sites investigated, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 88, 131-142
Garner, D, 2016 Hillforts of the Cheshire ridge: investigations undertaken by the Habitats and Hillforts Landscape Partnership Scheme 2009-2012, Archaeopress, Oxford
Garner, D, 2021 The Seven Lows prehistoric barrow cemetery, Fishpool Lane, Delamere, Cheshire: a reassessment, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 91, 9-88
Garner, D, Lewis, J, and Freke, D, 2018 Barrow Old Hall and Twiss Green: investigations of two sub-manorial estate centres within the townships of Bold and Culcheth in the Hundred of Warrington (ed Collens, J), Archaeopress, Oxford
Goodchild, J, 2020 The Cheshire aerial investigation and mapping project: Chester environs, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 90, 167-170
Higham, N J, 2000 The Tatton project, Part 3: The medieval estates, settlements, and halls, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 75, 61-133
Higham, N J, 2002 The Tatton project, Part 2: The post-medieval estate and halls: grandeur to decline, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 76, 81-126
Higham, N J, and Cane, T 1999 The Tatton project, Part 1: prehistoric to sub-Roman settlement and land use, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 74, 1-62
Knight, G M, Oakden, V, Jones, B, and Brandherm, D, 2021 a late Bronze Age carp’s-tongue sword from Swettenham, Cheshire, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 91, 89-102
Lewis, J, Heawood, R, and Howard-Davis, C, 2011, Bewsey Old Hall, Warrington, Cheshire: Excavations 1977-81 and 1983-5, Lancaster Imprints, 17, Lancaster
Leah. M and Edwards, J, 2015, Cheshire past in 2014, Part 1: sites investigated’, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 85, 89-97
Leah, M, 2017 Cheshire past in 2015, Part 1: sites investigated, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 86, 135-140
Leah, M, Nash, V, and Adams M 2018, Cheshire past in 2016, Part 1: sites investigated, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 87, 165-170
Lloyd, K, Leah, M, and Nevell, M 2020, Cheshire past in 2019, Part 1: sites investigated, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 90, 177-199
Lloyd, K, Leah, M, and Nevell, M 2021, Cheshire past in 2020, Part 1: sites investigated, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 91, 243-252
Lloyd, K, Leah, M, Cootes, K, and Nevell, M 2022, Cheshire past in 2021, Part 1: sites investigated, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 92, 47-55
Nash, V, Leah, M, and Nevell, M 2019, Cheshire past in 2018, Part 1: sites investigated, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 89, 151-160
Nevell, M, 2018, Chester and the archaeology of industrialisation, 1650-1900, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 87, 93-133
Patel, R, and Cowell, R 2022, A possible Bronze Age barrow cemetery near Willaston, Wirral, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 92, 13-34
Philpott, R A, 2020 Early Byzantine copper coins from lowland north-west England: new finds from Wirral, Cheshire, and west Lancashire, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 90, 51-70
Smith, L, 2018 Norton Priory: monastery to museum, J Chester Archaeol Soc, 87, 151-163
Timberlake, J, and Prag, A J N W, 2005 The archaeology of Alderley Edge: survey, excavation and experiment in an ancient mining landscape, Brit Arch Reps, 396, Oxford