Lawson Jones, A. (2019). St Michael's Mount, Stewards House Floors, Cornwall. Archaeological recording. Cornwall Archaeological Unit. https://doi.org/10.5284/1105775. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 St Michael's Mount, Stewards House Floors, Cornwall. Archaeological recording
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Series:		 Cornwall Council Historic Environment Service unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 Cornwall Archaeological Unit (CAU) undertook a programme of archaeological excavation and recording beneath Stewards House, which is a Grade II Listed Building in St Michael's Mount village, close to the head of the causeway. The project took place during the summer of 2019 and formed part of an extensive programme of floor removal, replacement and restoration work (PA17/01686). Significant features identified include cobbled surfaces associated with external yard and internal/open fronted structure flooring, stone post-pads, posthole settings and surface drains. In addition, a large unusually well-preserved internal earth and lime floor was uncovered, flanked to the east and west by early cobbling which included features associated with probable Civil War/17th century material. The remains of a sunken wooden barrel were found, which had originally been used for fish storage/small-scale fish processing (with preserved bones and scales at its base). This had then been backfilled before having a likely pouch or bag of pistol and musket balls placed on top beneath a wooden barrel lid (the rim of which survived as a clear impression. Most surprising was the discovery of a rectangular cut, still partially lined with wood, containing a dense undisturbed store of gunpowder with two pistol balls placed on its top. This has been interpreted as a magazine box. Two unstratified, differently sized cannon balls were found in the overlying deposits. The magazine box, stash of gunpowder, pouch of ammunition, plus the other musket, pistol and cannon balls are all considered likely to be of mid-17th century Civil War, or soon after, date. Both the barrel and the box had been sunk through pre-existent cobbled flooring, suggesting that at least some of the floors predate, perhaps significantly, the 17th to 18th centuries. Earlier features and deposits were recorded beneath the floors.
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Author:		 Anna Lawson Jones
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Publisher:		 Cornwall Archaeological Unit
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Year of Publication:		 2019
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County: Cornwall
Country: England
Parish: St. Michael's Mount
District: Cornwall
Grid Reference: 151566, 30072 (Easting, Northing)
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EXCAVATION (Event)
FLOOR (Monument Type England)
POST MEDIEVAL FLOOR (Tag)
WATCHING BRIEF (Event)
FLOOR (Monument Type England)
MEDIEVAL FLOOR (Tag)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
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OASIS Id: cornwall2-383797
Report id: 2019R071
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Created Date:		 31 Mar 2023