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2007, Archaeological investigations of a later prehistoric and a Romano British landscape at Tremough, Penryn,
Following an archaeological assessment and three geophysical surveys, a succession of archaeological excavations, test pitting and monitoring was carried out by Historic Environment Service, Cornwall County Council Council at the site of the Combined Universities in Cornwall’s campus at Tremough, Penryn between 2000 and 2004. Excavations were focused upon the investigation of a Neolithic flint scatter and pit groups, including some containing Late Neolithic Grooved Ware, together with Early to Middle Bronze Age timber post-rings and a small enclosed Romano-British settlement, situated upon a plateau overlooking the Fal estuary. Subsequent smaller-scale monitoring and test pitting was carried out at the east end of the plateau and on its slopes. This work confirmed the results from geophysical survey, which had indicated that there was a marked decline in significant archaeological features beyond the plateau. Twenty-two radiocarbon determinations ranging between 3950 BC and AD 1160 were obtained. These dates fell into four major groups; the Early Neolithic, the Late Neolithic, the Early to Middle Bronze Age and the Later Iron Age to Romano-British period. A single earlier medieval date was also obtained from a field ditch.
Cornish Archaeology
Archaeological excavations at Tremough, Penryn, 2000-6, Cornish Archaeology, 2009-10, 48-9, 1-662010 •
Cornish Archaeology
Later Neolithic pits and an Iron Age and Romano-British settlement at Penryn College2017 •
Archaeological monitoring during the redevelopment of playing fields at Penryn College, Cornwall, revealed activity dating to the Late Neolithic and to the Iron Age – Romano-British period. The Neolithic evidence took the form of pits containing Grooved Ware, the eighth occurrence of this pottery type to be found in Cornwall. Three radiocarbon dates were obtained, indicating activity in the period 2900–2400 cal BC. The investigations also revealed a Middle to Late Iron Age ditched rectilinear field system, over which a settlement of two curvilinear enclosures and several post-built structures developed between the Late Iron Age and the second century AD. A Romano-British toilet set, the only example found to date in Cornwall, appears to have been deposited in one of the structures as a votive object.
Cornish Archaeology
Mid-fourth millennium cal BC activity at Penans Farm, Grampound, Cornwall2017 •
In August 2017 Cornwall Archaeological Unit was commissioned by Qila Energy to undertake an archaeological watching brief at Penans Farm near Grampound, during the phase 2 groundworks associated with the construction of an anaerobic digester / gas injection plant. Two significant features were uncovered: a pit which produced a middle fourth millennium cal BC radiocarbon determination and, a tree throw hollow with prehistoric pottery and flint. A small quantity of mostly residual and unstratified flint from the site is of later Neolithic or Early Bronze Age date. The context of the Neolithic pit is reviewed in the light of radiocarbon dates from similar sites across Cornwall and Devon.
Cornish Archaeology
The Neolithic and Bronze Age periods in Cornwall, c 4000 cal BC to c 1000 cal BC: an overview of recent developments, Cornish Archaeology, 50, 2011, 197-2302011 •
An overview of the period 4000 cal BC to 1000cal BC - based on recent work
Cornish Archaeology 52
Archaeological excavations at Bosiliack, Madron, Cornwall2013 •
In September 2011 archaeological investigations were carried out on a Bronze Age settlement at Bosiliack, near Lanyon in West Penwith. The project was undertaken to gain further information by excavating one of the roundhouses and to ascertain the effects of bracken rhizomes upon buried archaeological deposits. During the course of the project, eight 1m square test pits and a small structure, house 3, were excavated. Excavation revealed the substantial impact of bracken but also led to the recovery of Middle Bronze Age pottery which suggests a second millennium cal BC date for the roundhouse. Later activity dating to the Middle Iron Age was revealed by two radiocarbon determinations. In 1984 two roundhouses and an Early Bronze Age entrance grave were investigated in the same area. These sites have been published elsewhere. However, a summary is included in this paper to provide a wider context for the 2011 excavations and to make the results more widely available.
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Palaeoecological Evidence for the Prehistoric Settlement of Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, southwest England. Part II: Land Use Changes from the Neolithic to the Present2000 •
Cornish Archaeology 51, 2012, 165-190
Early Neolithic Activity and an Iron Age settlement at Penmayne, Rock, St Minver2012 •
Geophysical survey in advance of development at Penmayne, identified a series of curvilinear anomalies thought to represent late prehistoric settlement. Targeted evaluation trenching revealed three ring-gullies associated with roundhouses of probable Middle Iron Age date. Three smaller structures, superimposed upon the ring-gullies indicated a later phase of Iron Age settlement. The work also discovered an Early Neolithic pit, associated with sherds of carinated bowl pottery and providing two radiocarbon dates in the mid fourth millennium cal BC. The investigation has added further information about the character of Early Neolithic occupation in north Cornwall and is particularly important for providing close dating for carinated bowl pottery in the south west. A third determination of 380-190 cal BC came from a hearth associated with a small assemblage of broadly Middle Iron Age pottery. The archaeological recording has provided another late prehistoric unenclosed settlement site for comparison with others in lowland Cornwall and increases the number of open settlements dating to the Iron Age.
Summary This report presents the results of a desk-based assessment, geophysical survey and archaeological evaluation carried out adjacent to Winnianton Farm and Gunwalloe Church, Gunwalloe Parish, Cornwall. This work was undertaken by Dr Imogen Wood, on behalf of the National Trust, and in collaboration with local and regional archaeological groups, members of the local community and The University of Exeter, which has successfully brought people together achieving a high level of public engagement. This work formed part of the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) -funded ‘Unlocking Our Coastal Heritage’ project concerning archaeological sites threated by coastal erosion along the south-west coast path. The multi-period site at Gunwalloe, located on the western coast of the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, has been a locus firstly for burial and later for settlement for over 3000 years. This is a rapidly-eroding section of coastline, and the results of the evaluation have not only answered the many questions raised over the past century, but also recorded a visibly receding archaeological resource. Six Trenches were opened across the coastal strip: five within a known early-medieval settlement, and one across the ramparts of a suspected promontory fort. The investigation of the Scheduled promontory fort revealed a complex stratigraphical sequence: a Middle Bronze Age cist burial unique in Cornwall overlain by Late Bronze Age midden, indicating the presence of a previously unknown settlement. This was buried beneath an Iron Age rampart defining a defended enclosed space that was in use until the post-Roman period when it appears to have been destroyed by fire. The accumulation of material within the interior of the bank suggests it was continuously occupied, and that the inhabitants had contacts beyond Cornwall, with the discovery of an Iron Age Kimmeridge shale bracelet fragment and a sherd of Roman Oxfordshire colour-coated ware. The early medieval settlement in the sand dunes has now been firmly dated to the 8th to 12th centuries. The evaluation uncovered evidence for middens, working-surfaces and a sub-rectangular sunken-featured building, and revealed unique evidence of daily life during this period and of how the settlement changed over time. What was once a long-lived rural settlement and early Christian community transformed into an important Royal Hundredral manor site. The sunken-featured rectangular house, with its revetted clay-bonded stone walls and a central hearth dating to the 10-11th century, is the first of its kind to be encountered in Cornwall. The middens have revealed detailed faunal evidence of changes in diet over time, changes which are also reflected in the extensive ceramic assemblage. The preservation of animal bone was very good, due to the calcareous shell sand, and the fish bones recovered suggest that the inhabitants exploited the marine resources as well as farming the land and keeping animals. The evaluation also determined that the initial formation of the dunes took place in the Early Bronze Age. An extensive programme of paleoenvironmental analyses was undertaken, including: soil micro-morphology and geochemistry, phytolith analysis, environmental profiles through mollusc analysis, charcoal species identification and radiocarbon dating. The results have examined the internal processes involved within middens, found evidence for cereal processing inside the house and the use of water reeds, and outlined the changes in the wider environmental from scrubland with wooded areas to grassland more conducive to agriculture.
Archaeological Journal
Archaeology and landscape at the land’s end, Cornwall: the West Penwith surveys 1980-20102019 •
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