Parkes, C. (2017). lizard point, Landewednack, Cornwall; Archaeological Assessment. Cornwall Council Historic Environment Service. https://doi.org/10.5284/1047108. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 lizard point, Landewednack, Cornwall; Archaeological Assessment
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Series:		 Cornwall Council Historic Environment Service unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 This assessment for the National Trust shows that the Lizard Point is rich in archaeological features and structures, and historical associations. Archaeology relating directly to the coast includes the potential platform of a Jacobean lighthouse, and elements of the extant, Georgian lighthouse complex; features of a lifeboat station of 1859 to 1961; other sites relating to coastal charting, safety infrastructure and defences; and possible burials of victims of the wreck of the Royal Anne galley in 1709, perhaps even upstanding grave mounds. A restored Marconi station of the early 20th century reflects innovations in long-distance wireless telegraphy, as well as the development of the earlier coastal signalling and telegraphy marked by the Lizard Signal Station (Lloyd's building) and other features. Possible prehistoric sites meriting further investigation include a standing stone and a mound on the cliffs, as well as crop-marks of buried enclosures in the fields - intensively used in the past due to high productivity manifested by old pits dug for marl, a fertile subsoil. The property in general is characterised as a medieval farming landscape with a belt of clifftop pasture formerly held in common, the 'morrop'. A well-preserved network of routes features early sinuous ways linking the coves and morrop to the strip-derived fields and farmsteads. A summit above Old Lizard Head may be the site of the lys or pre-Norman administrative centre for which the Lizard is named; potential remains of enclosing earthworks lie on Trust land. The house and studio/s of marine painter Thomas Hart, and little serpentine workshops and stalls at Polpeor, mark the appreciation of the area's sublime coastal scenery, and the popularity of the red and green scaly serpentine rocks outcropping on its north, which spread in the 19th century across an increasingly wide spectrum of society.
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Author:		 Cathy Parkes
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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:		 2017
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Site: The Lizard Point
County: Cornwall
District: Cornwall
Parish: LANDEWEDNACK
Country: England
Grid Reference: 170000, 11650 (Easting, Northing)
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MIDDLE BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods) FLINT (Find)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) LIGHTHOUSE (Monument Type England)
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OASIS Id: cornwall2-280394
OBIB: CAU Report No. 2017R007
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Note:		 Bound A4 paper with A3 foldout maps; colour
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Created Date:		 05 Apr 2018