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Noss on Dart Marina, Kingswear, Devon: Archaeological Monitoring, Car Park Site |
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Cornwall Council Historic Environment Service unpublished report series
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| Abstract: |
Asbestos from old shipyard buildings above, dumped in the past down the slope on the south of the site, and incorporated in made ground extending from there into Noss Creek, affected the archaeological monitoring. However, this produced some evidence relating to aspects of the history of the shipyard. A ruin on the south east dates from the establishment of the yard at the turn of the 20th century by Simpson and Strickland. This stood on the old shoreline, and may be a workshop and store for wharf related trade. It had flooring of brick and lime ash in an outshut, and its main roof may have had ridge tiles resembling those of original shipyard office buildings nearby. It was adapted, most likely when the yard was used in preparation for D-Day, with walling made of shuttered concrete like that used for gridirons for D-Day vessels on the Dart which are Scheduled Monuments. A smaller building on the south west of the site, also on the former shoreline so perhaps a boathouse, may date from the earlier years of the Philips ownership of the yard in the first half of the 20th century. Made ground dating from the later 20th century extended across most of the car park site. Archaeological potential for buried early settlement-related remains here appeared very limited because of the steepness of this north side of the Point, as a result of which platforms for the old waterfront shipyard buildings had to be cut into bedrock. A Bronze Age flint core found in redeposited material beyond the site may have come from the Point, or elsewhere. Higher Noss Point is a distinctive, ridged little promontory, and its top (above the monitoring site), intervisible with a hillfort to the north east, may have potential for remains of prehistoric activity perhaps relating to past use of that central place. |
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Cathy Parkes
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Cornwall Archaeological Unit
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2020
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cornwall2-407045 |
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CAU Report no. 2020R057 |
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This report was uploaded to the OASIS system by the named Publisher. The report has been transferred into the ADS Library for public access and to facilitate future research.
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20 May 2022 |
