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Cornish Archaeol 30
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Cornish Archaeol 30
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Cornish Archaeology
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30
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Journal
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1991
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Date Of Issue From: 1991
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20 Jan 2002
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Trethellan Farm, Newquay: the excavation of a lowland Bronze Age settlement and Iron Age cemetery
Jacqueline A Nowakowski
5 - 242
Reports the discovery and excavation of a site that provides rare evidence of lowland Bronze Age settlement activity in the form of a substantial planned farming settlement. Residential houses and non--dwelling structures co--existed, implying planned use of space, and the different architectural styles of several of the wooden structures hint at a wider diversity of lowland settlement types for this period than was previously suspected. The economy appears to have been based on mixed farming although evidence for trade also exists. Evidence for ritual activity, in the form of a small square building of uncertain purpose and two ritual hollows, was also found. The Bronze Age settlement seems to have been abandoned very suddenly, it is suggested for socio--cultural, rather than environmental, reasons. There then followed a 900 year period of apparent abandonment, until the Iron Age when the site was adopted as a cemetery. Twenty one burials, mostly crouched inhumations, were discovered and metalwork evidence indicated fairly continuous use over the third and second centuries BC. The report includes sections on `The Bronze Age pottery' Ann </ze> Woodward & Charlotte </ze> Cane (103-31), `The petrological analysis' David F </ze> Williams (131-3), `The Bronze Age metalwork' (133-6), `Fired clay and daub artefacts' (136-41), `Stone artefacts' (141-56), `Soil report' Richard </ze> Macphail (156-60), `Molluscan analysis' Annie </ze> Milles (160), `Charred plant macrofossils' Vanessa </ze> Straker (161-79), and `The animal bones' Sebastian </ze> Payne (180-2), with `Appendix 1: the plant remains' Vanessa Straker (234-5).
A seventeenth century fish cellar at Porth Godrevy, Gwithian
Michael Tangye
243 - 252
Structural remains in the form of a `back wall' which was previously supposed to be a terrace revetment, a `south wall' threatened by sea erosion and part of a cobbled floor surface were investigated. The back and south walls proved to be linked, and the discovery of several recesses for `pressing poles' confirmed the structure as a fish cellar. Cartographic and documentary evidence indicate that it was last in use in the seventeenth century.
Flint scatters at Penatillie, St Columb Major
Philip Steele
253 - 259
Flint scatters from PT 1 and PT 2 were assessed through a collection of retouched artefacts and a selected sample of debitage from each site. This yielded evidence for Mesolithic hunting and Late Neolithic -- Early Bronze Age activity.
Tintagel Island 1990: an interim report
Christopher D Morris
260 - 262
Report on recent exploratory work to ascertain the nature and extent of remains where an RCHME survey had indicated a possible terrace below `Site C'. Investigations uncovered evidence of at least two walls, although they were in different positions than had been predicted. There were also indications of a hard packed gravel surface. Pottery evidence is currently being dated by thermoluminescence and results of environmental research should also be forthcoming. Minor additional work was carried out on two other terraces, a watching brief was undertaken during work to renovate present day public access steps and a preliminary survey of Tintagel Haven was carried out.
Recent work by Cornwall Archaeological Unit
Peter Herring
Nigel Thomas
John R Smith
Jeanette Ratcliffe
263 - 266
Details current work from the St Austell china clay area survey, the Kit Hill to St Mellion water main, Launceston Castle, Lanyon Quoit and Chapel Carn Brea, Perran Foundry, St Mary's Runway extension and also includes a précis of fieldwork on Scilly.