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Proposed Penhale Solar Farm, Wadebridge, Cornwall, Archaeological Assessment |
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Cornwall Council Historic Environment Service unpublished report series
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Abstract: |
This archaeological assessment of a proposed solar farm at Penhale, Wadebridge, Cornwall, for Wardell Armstrong International was undertaken by the Projects team of Historic Environment, Cornwall Council. The study was designed to gain a better understanding of the impacts which would result from the solar farm, both within the limits of the application site, and in the surrounding historic landscape. It includes desk-based study and fieldwork. Viewshed mapping showing the theoretical inter-visibility between the proposed solar farm and the surrounding landscape, was used to inform the assessment. The proposed area does not include any Scheduled Monuments (SMs) or Listed Buildings (LBs) and there are no other designations applied to the land. However, immediately north of the site the land is part of the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). There are two enclosures of Iron Age or Romano-British date, both probably 'rounds' (settlement sites), immediately west of the site. That closest to the site has a complex of other linear features and pits associated with it. These features are expected to have buried remains extending into the western side of the area and are considered to be of national importance. In the viewshed within a 4km radius of the site (are ten Scheduled Monuments, and nine Listed Buildings. On the basis of current knowledge the proposed site includes or is bordered by five archaeological sites. These are the site of a prehistoric enclosure, the site of a post-medieval farm settlement, a 19th century mill pond, the historic parish boundary between St Issey and St Breock and a medieval strip-derived field system. |
Author: |
J Sturgess
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Publisher: |
Cornwall Archaeological Unit
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Historic Environment Record (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2010
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Proposed Penhale Solar Farm |
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ST ISSEY |
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Cornwall |
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Cornwall |
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England |
Grid Reference: 195178, 71153 (Easting, Northing)
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cornwall2-97900 |
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Report No: 2010R119 |
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A4 bound document
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24 Nov 2016 |