sentences:  There have also been some Roman coin finds, and suggestions that remains at Easden and another site near Mereclough were small Roman forts.Cliviger is not mentioned in the Domesday survey, and the survey of the wider area (Blackburnshire) is brief.Around 1160 a "plough-land", possibly the whole of the township, was granted to the recently founded Kirkstall Abbey (Leeds), and the monks made a grange here.