Thorpe, C. (2015). Higher Tregunnon Farm, Altarnun, Cornwall. Archaeological Watching Brief.. Cornwall Council Historic Environment Service. https://doi.org/10.5284/1040541. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Higher Tregunnon Farm, Altarnun, Cornwall. Archaeological Watching Brief.
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Series:		 Cornwall Council Historic Environment Service unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 A watching brief done on groundworks to construct the base for a new wind turbine. Only one feature was uncovered during the excavation of the turbine base. This was a ditch [5] that is likely to have been a removed field boundary. It is nearly perpendicular to and appears to be related to the linear cropmark boundary to the south identified on the HER. Neither of the boundaries appears on the 1843 Tithe Map for Altarnun which suggests that they had been removed by the middle of the nineteenth century. The presence of eighteenth to early nineteenth century pottery within the top part of the fill of the ditch may date to the period when the boundary was removed. By contrast, the presence of fourteenth century medieval pottery at the base of the ditch fill could suggest that the ditch was already in existence by that time. In summary, on ceramic grounds the ditch may have been in use between the fourteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Both boundaries are likely to be part of a field system of medieval origin (MCO24708), and were part of a pattern of strip fields associated with the settlements at Tregunnon and nearby Trenarrett. No other features of archaeological interest were uncovered within the turbine base and no other artefacts were recovered. It is therefore evident that this development has made little impact on any significant buried archaeological remains. A small linear ditch possibly of medieval origin and possibly forming part of the medieval field system identified in the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly HER was recorded.
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Author:		 C Thorpe
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Publisher:		 Cornwall Council Historic Environment Service
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Historic Environment Record (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2015
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Site: Higher Tregunnon Farm, Altarnun
County: Cornwall
District: Cornwall
Parish: ALTARNUN
Country: England
Grid Reference: 222988, 83289 (Easting, Northing)
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MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) FIELD SYSTEM (Monument Type England)
WATCHING BRIEF (Event)
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OASIS Id: cornwall2-230099
OBIB: Report number 2015R069
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Created Date:		 01 Feb 2018