The Analyst, 1836. “Proceedings of Provincial Societies”. A report to the Shropshire and North Wales Natural History and Antiquarian Society on an investigation of a now ploughed-out tumulus near Bury Bank…

“Some brief remarks, by Mr. Henry Pidgeon, were next read, on the opening of a tumulus, called the Round Low, near Swinnerton, Staffordshire [near Saxon’s Low, Trentham]. The mound consisted of various kinds of stones, collected from the neighbourhood and promiscuously thrown together. Some of these, which were of sandstone, appeared to have been subjected to the action of fire, and on their tops, as well as on all sides of the tumulus, lay bones, intermixed with charcoal. In the centre of the mound, large irregular sandstones, of from thirty inches to three feet in size, occurred, in an upright position, forming an octagon of about twenty feet in diameter. The soil, within the stones, to the depth of three feet, consisted of mixed sands of different colour, below which were other large stones. As the investigation, which was undertaken by the occupier of the land for the mere purpose of rendering the mound available for cultivation, was not further prosecuted, it is quite evident that the proper deposit of the tumulus, which in most, if not in all, cases occurs at some depth below the level of the adjacent surface, remains yet unexplored. Similar tumuli, called the Saxon Low, Blake Low, White Low, and Barrow Bank [presumably the main mound at Bury Bank], exist in the immediate vicinity.”