Johns, C. and Taylor, S. R. (2010). St Agnes Affordable Housing Site, Higher Town, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly. Cornwall Archaeological Unit. https://doi.org/10.5284/1022843. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 St Agnes Affordable Housing Site, Higher Town, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly
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Series:		 Cornwall Council Historic Environment Service unpublished report series
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Publication Type:		 Report (in Series)
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Abstract:		 In September 2009 HE Projects were commissioned by Cornwall Rural Housing Association Ltd to carry out archaeological recording to satisfy a planning condition for the development of twonew affordable houses at Higher Town, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly. The fieldwork established that the site contained a circular, stone-built structure (overlain by a cairn) and two other cairns. These structures are dated by associated pottery to the prehistoric period. The most likely scenario is that activity on the site dates to the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age period. The stone-built structure was oval and contained a number of features indicating a functional use for the building, including a stone-lined drain or flue beneath it, a large burnt pit, a stone-lined chamber containing an almost whole pot, and a number of postholes. Overlying the structure was a cairn, a large mound of granite rubble possibly erected as an act of closure of the site, or perhaps indicating re-use for a different function. One of the potsherds recovered during the archaeological work has incised marks that appear to represent the front part of a sailing vessel: if substantiated this would be the earliest depiction of such a vessel in Scilly and Cornwall, and one of the earliest in the British Isles. The archaeological remains revealed on the site are evidently part of the south-western extent of Scheduled Monument 15456 'prehistoric to Romano-British field system and settlement at Higher Town, St Agnes'.
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Author:		 Catherine Johns
Sean R Taylor
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Publisher:		 Cornwall Archaeological Unit
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Council of the Isles of Scilly (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2010
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Site: Higher Town
Parish: ST AGNES
District: Cornwall
County: Cornwall
Country: England
Location - Auto Detected: Scilly
Location - Auto Detected: Agnes
Location - Auto Detected: Cornwall
Grid Reference: 88280, 8230 (Easting, Northing)
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LATER PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods) POT (Object England)
LATER PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods) QUERN (Object England)
LATER PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods) CAIRN (Monument Type England)
LATER PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods) ROUND HOUSE (DOMESTIC) (Monument Type England)
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EARLY IRON AGE (Historic England Periods)
LATE BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods)
PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods)
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OASIS Id: cornwall2-79672
OBIB: 2010R092
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Note:		 A4 paper, white card card covers, comb bound
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Created Date:		 25 Nov 2016