Digital Archive from Archaeological Investigations and Recording Work at Brunswick Wharf, Bideford, May 2021 to March 2022
AC Archaeology Ltd, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5284/1102113. How to cite using this DOI
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- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1102113
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Introduction
This collection comprises site records and images from a programme of works which included historic building recording, monitoring and recording of trial pits, and a trial trench evaluation. These works were undertaken by AC Archaeology Ltd between May 2021 and March 2022.
The recorded buildings included a warehouse and a cottage which have origins that are contemporary with the shipbuilding yard and date to the 19th century. A key event in the site's history was the widening of Barnstaple Street in 1923 when a whole bay was removed from the warehouse and a new east elevation constructed and the front of the cottage was narrowed with again a new east elevation constructed. The survey identified a number of mid and/ or later 20th-century alterations to the buildings including the rebuilding of the store.
The evaluation produced results that indicated there was some level of survival across the site, although demolition and clearing of structures, at various times in the late 19th and 20th centuries, had been extensive. A small number of walls and surfaces associated with phases of development of the site were exposed. These were located at relatively shallow depths, generally surviving directly below the modern surface. The watching brief and evaluation identified the presence of reclamation and made ground deposits dating from the 17th- and/ or 18th-century onwards. These were sat on the foreshore that comprised naturally deposited layers of silt and sand. All finds and deposits were dated to the post-medieval or modern periods, with no evidence for earlier remains identified.
