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Cromwell's Mound Civil War fieldwork is a scheduled ancient monument located in Lancashire that forms part of the extensive defensive earthwork systems constructed during the English Civil War. The monument comprises a raised mound with associated entrenchments and ditches, characteristic of the field fortifications hastily thrown up by parliamentary or royalist forces during the conflict of the mid-seventeenth century. Such fieldworks were typically temporary military structures designed to provide defensive positions and command strategic vantage points across the landscape. The survival of the mound and its accompanying earthworks provides evidence of Civil War military engineering and the local impact of the conflict on the Lancashire countryside.
Cromwell's Mound Civil War fieldwork is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1016551. View the official record →
Cromwell's Mound Civil War fieldwork is a scheduled ancient monument located in Lancashire that forms part of the extensive defensive earthwork systems constructed during the English Civil War.
Cromwell's Mound Civil War fieldwork is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1016551.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Chingle Hall moated site (2.4 km), Castle Hill motte (5.1 km), Roman settlement and industrial area at Winery Lane (5.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cromwell's Mound Civil War fieldwork's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Cromwell's Mound Civil War fieldwork stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.