Cornwall Council Historic Environment Service unpublished report series

<summary>Desk-based assessment of the Kilkhampton area established that the settlement of Kilkhampton itself formed a fine example of a medieval landscape, with its complex of urban elements, including the castle, town and burgage plots, being particularly well-preserved. In the area around Kilkhampton evidence of earlier activity included two ploughed-down Bronze Age barrows, the defended Iron Age/Romano-British farmstead of Winswood Castle, the possible route of a Roman road, possible traces of Roman settlement, and field systems, boundaries and a possible early Christian cemetery of post-Roman date. Post-medieval and later settlement and industrial sites were also identified within the study area. {italon}AIP{italoff}

A desktop study followed by a brief visit and walkover survey was undertaken to identify and assess archaeological remains and archaeological potential in an area of proposed road improvements. The key identified sites included two settlements of medieval origin with their associated field boundaries and lanes, developed through to the present day. The potential presence of prehistoric remains was also noted. [AIP]

The watching brief of the gas main pipeline route resulted in the collection of detailed information on field patterns and historic boundaries, both extant and removed. Previously unknown areas of later prehistoric, Romano-British or early settlement in at least two locations were identified. Scatters of medieval pottery provided evidence of the main areas of medieval activity. Other finds of prehistoric flints provided evidence of how the area was used in the Neolithic and Bronze Age. In addition, concentrations of below ground mining remains, provided details of features associated with known mines. [Au(abr)]

A planning application has been made for the erection of a wind turbine at Grogarth Farm, just to the north west of the medieval settlement of Tregony. HE projects were requested by the applicant to undertaken an archaeological assessment of the proposed development, working to a brief supplied the HEPAO, Cornwall Council. A desk based assessment was undertaken, together with viewshed analysis was undertaken to determine potential impacts on the settings of designated and undesignated heritage assets in line with English Heritage Planning Guidance. The findings of the DBA and viewshed analysis were checked and recorded on the ground using direct observation and digital photography. Given the elevated location proposed for the wind turbine and the local topography, not unexpectedly the viewshed indicated that the turbine would be intervisible with heritage assets located within the surrounding landscape, including parts of the Tregony Conservation Area and elements of the Registered Parks and Gardens at Trewithen and Trewarthenick, from the scheduled Golden Camp to the north east, from listed buildings in Tregony and from three Grade 1 listed churches at Cornelly, Cuby and Creed. Despite the high intervisibility of the turbine with a significant number of designated heritage assets within the surrounding landscape, it is not felt likely to be a dominating presence, and therefore would not have a significant impact on their settings. NMP aerial photo plots suggest that elements of an Iron Age/Romano-British field system associated with a cropmark enclosure to the south-west may extend into the development site.