Brown, T., Cook, J. and Steinmetzer, M. F R. (2021). Bodmin Jail, Bodmin, Cornwall: Archaeological Watching Brief . Cirencester: Cotswold Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1088956. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Bodmin Jail, Bodmin, Cornwall: Archaeological Watching Brief
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Series:		 Cotswold Archaeology unpublished report series
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Publication Type:		 Report (in Series)
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Abstract:		 Between May 2018 and November 2020, Cotswold Archaeology carried out a historic building recording and an archaeological watching brief during groundworks associated with redevelopment at Bodmin Jail, Bodmin, Cornwall. Excavations in the central and western part of the site revealed the original soil sequence buried underneath extensive made ground associated with the construction of New Bodmin Jail in the mid- 1850s. No features pre-dating the prison or structural remains pertaining to the earlier Georgian prison were identified. The remnants of a wall uncovered at the west of the site correlate to the position of both the western boundary wall of an 18th-century extension to the Georgian prison and a dividing wall within a yard associated with the New Bodmin Jail. It is unclear which phase the wall relates to, although the wholescale demolition of the Georgian prison prior to the construction of the New Bodmin Jail would suggest the latter. Structural remains of extant and demolished New Bodmin Jail buildings were recorded across the site, including cells within the Civil Prison wing, the below-ground remains of the former Naval Prison Hospital block, a surface and evidence of the former gates at the eastern entrance to the Civil Prison, two small rectangular structures and remains relating to a former laundry at the west of the Civil Prison wing.
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Author:		 T Brown
J Cook
Marc F R Steinmetzer ORCID icon
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Publisher:		 Cotswold Archaeology
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Historic Environment Record (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2021
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Site: Bodmin Jail
County: Cornwall
District: Cornwall
Parish: BODMIN
Country: England
Grid Reference: 206488, 67439 (Easting, Northing)
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WATCHING BRIEF (Event)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) PRISON (Monument Type England)
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OASIS Id: cotswold2-419616
OBIB: 880210_1
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Created Date:		 29 Oct 2021