Data from a Level 2 Descriptive Buildings Recording Survey and Watching Brief at Tuckingmill, Camborne, Cornwall, 2017 - 2022

Cotswold Archaeology, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5284/1122112.

Introduction

South west facing view of Building 19's rear elevation
South west facing view of Building 19's rear elevation

This digital archive comprises report, images, gis and site record data from an archaeological watching brief during ground investigation works at Tuckingmill, Camborne, Cornwall, completed in May and June 2022, by Cotswold Archaeology, and a prior building recording completed in June and July 2017, by Cotswold Archaeology.

The watching brief recorded a Bronze Age pit. Also recorded were several features associated with known post-medieval mining activity, as well as limited structural remains associated with a former fuseworks. There were also a small number of undated ditches.

The building recording discovered and recorded that the buildings originally formed part of the Bickford Smith's Fuseworks. The 19th century 'V Building' and the early 20th century 'North Lights Building' are the earliest buildings on the site. They are key elements of the Tuckingmill & Roskear Conservation Area, as well as forming part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site. The remaining buildings included in the building recording survey are more recent constructions of lower historical importance, and can mainly be characterised as ancillary buildings.

All of the buildings have undergone significant deterioration since the mid-1990s. Nearly half of the original buildings on site having been demolished or having disappeared from view, while the remaining buildings having been damaged by fire, vandalism and overgrown vegetation.