Balmond, F. and Walls, S. H. (2021). St Roche, Mawgan Porth, Mawgan-in-Pydar, Cornwall Heritage Assessment, including site visit. South West Archaeology Ltd.. https://doi.org/10.5284/1100160. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 St Roche, Mawgan Porth, Mawgan-in-Pydar, Cornwall Heritage Assessment, including site visit
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Series:		 South West Archaeology Ltd. unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 South West Archaeology Ltd. was commissioned to produce a heritage assessment for land at St Roche, Mawgan Porth, Cornwall. This work was undertaken on behalf of a private client as part of a proposed planning application for the erection of six holiday accommodation units. A desk-based assessment and site visit has been undertaken. Sites from the prehistoric to modern periods are documented in the landscape around the proposed development site including a prehistoric submerged forest on the beach at Mawgan Porth to the west of the site and prehistoric burials and an enclosure at Gluvian to the south-east of the site. The archaeological importance of the area immediately adjacent to the proposed development site was first established in 1934 when a skeleton was reported from the garden of an adjacent house (Hirst and Keith 1936). Trial trenching took place in 1948 and area excavations were carried out in 1950-52, 1954 and finally in 1974, all largely in response to development threats. An early medieval settlement (now a scheduled monument) with a (presumed) contemporary cemetery was recorded. The cemetery consisted of a group of 17 slab graves ('long cists'). The settlement was comprised of three courtyard houses, with a principal long house with provision for both human and animal habitation on one side of an open courtyard surrounded by ancillary structures. Traces of earlier structures were identified in and around the settlement. The site is dated by a single coin find (c.990-995), and the quantity of early medieval grass-marked ('bar-lug') pottery recovered from the site has made it a type-site for the period. Archaeological monitoring during works at the Marver Chalets site in 2019-2020 encountered one further inhumation burial, part of an early medieval house, and evidence for other terraces, along with a couple of prehistoric pits (Webb forthcoming).
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Author:		 F Balmond
Samuel H Walls
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Publisher:		 South West Archaeology Ltd.
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Year of Publication:		 2021
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District: Cornwall
County: Cornwall
Country: England
Parish: Mawgan-in-Pydar
Grid Reference: 185235, 67312 (Easting, Northing)
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DOCUMENTARY RESEARCH (Event)
DESK BASED ASSESSMENT (Event)
FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT) (Event)
DESK BASED ASSESSMENT (Event)
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OASIS Id: southwes1-433748
OBIB: 210114
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Created Date:		 12 Oct 2022