' AMOUNDERNESS " : A REGIONAL SURVEY OF THE FYLDE 



Our castles, churches and monuments are heritages of the past. Our 

 beautiful, ordered, rural scenery, with its hedges and trees, is for the most 

 part the work of loving hands mellowed by time. 



The growth of population and the exigencies of industrial development and 

 modern forms of transport have created, and must continue to create, many 

 problems difficult but not impossible of solution if we would preserve this 

 heritage of natural beauty and archeological interest. The word ' amenities,' 

 now so frequently used in Acts of Parliament, relating to town and regional 

 planning, has a very real significance for all of us. 



There are few areas so rich in antiquarian and archeological interest and 

 with such a virile and continuous connection with the history of England as a 

 whole as the ancient Hundred of Amounderness — a history which takes us back 

 2,000 years to the time when the area was peopled by the Setantii or Segantii, 

 a branch of the Bregantes. They were not a building or planning community, 

 however. So far as any traces of their occupation remain, they would appear 

 to have had a few strongholds, but that is all. Their urns, tools, implements, 

 canoes and so on are dug up at intervals all over the area, the principal 

 discoveries being the following : — 



Street 



Bleasdale .... 

 Lund Church 

 Weston 



Wyre 



KlRKHAM .... 



Valley of the 

 Main Dyke 

 Kirkham .... 



KlRKHAM .... 



DOWBRIDGE... 



ROSSALL 



Cogie Hall 



Claughton Hall 



Various 



Remains of Roman bridge. 



The Bleasdale circle, stockade and cinerary urns. 



Roman altar now used as a font. 



Several urns, and pottery discovered on a barrow 



or cairn. 

 Cuirass picked up on the banks of the Wyre. 

 Boss or umbo of a shield. 



Two or three hide-covered wood-framed canoes. 



Roman coins. 



Roman pottery, stones, prepared for building 

 eight or 10 urns (some cinerary), stone hand- 

 mills, axes, horse-shoes. 



Ancient medicinal spring and roadway, urns and 

 ivory needles. 



400 silver coins of Trajan, Hadrian Titus, 

 Vespasian, Domitian, Antonius, Severus, 

 Sibinia, etc. 



Oak box fastened together with oak pins, con- 

 taining celts, arrow-heads, etc., now in 

 Warrington museum. 



Two large convex brooches to form a box to hold 

 two beads of coloured paste and a mortar tooth 

 enclosed in a wooden case. Also an axe and 

 hammer, a stone axe maul head, iron spear head 

 and iron sword, also an urn of baked clay 

 containing charred bones. 



Celtic hammers, axes and spears taken from the 

 Mosses in the district, also ' Druids' Eggs ' or 

 ornaments worn by the ancient British priests. 



