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SANH Doc Fully Designed.Indd SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGY 2018 EDITED BY CHRIS WEBSTER, SOUTH WEST HERITAGE TRUST COUNTY ARCHAEOLOGICAL England to help with managing some of these sites OFFICER’S REPORT and monument management work took place at Charterhouse on Mendip and at Deer Leap near Delivering archaeological planning advice to the Westbury sub Mendip. councils in Somerset has been one of the key functions The Countryside Stewardship programme continues of the Historic Environment Service (HES) since its to be supported by DEFRA and in 2018 Jan Grove gave establishment. In 2018 this was expanded into Bath and detailed comments on over 400 different landholders North East Somerset Council when their archaeological about the likely impact of their proposed schemes officer, Richard Sermon retired. BaNES Council on the historic environment. The HES also works decided not to reappoint the post and invited the HES closely with the three AONB services in Somerset and to tender to deliver archaeological planning advice contributed to an innovative project looking at historic and to manage their Historic Environment Record. boundaries in the Blackdown Hills AONB area. This bid was successful, and a two-year contract is As part of its wider advice service staff from the now in place to deliver that service using staff from HES offer advice on archaeological and conservation the South West Heritage Trust and by appointing an matters to the Diocese of Bath and Wells. One of additional HER officer, Jack Fuller. Planning casework the largest projects in the diocese is the extensive continues to be a major function for the Service and programme of refurbishing work at Bath Abbey, in 2018 Steve Membery, Tanya James and Jan Grove part of a £20m reordering and development scheme. commented on over 1300 planning applications Wessex Archaeology have coordinated a programme ranging from individual building plots in the middle of of archaeological monitoring and recording during the historic settlements through to extensive applications year and this work has revealed evidence of some of for housing schemes and major projects such as the the earlier foundations of the Saxon buildings on the A303 proposals and National Grid schemes. site and also part of the late Saxon cemetery area with Work on the post excavation programme associated over 40 charcoal burials (see under medieval). with the earlier excavations at Hinkley Point C power The SWHT is one of the key partners in a station continues and Steve Membery and Bob Croft Landscape Partnership project funded by the Heritage monitor this work for Somerset County Council. An Lottery Fund looking at the Quantock AONB and archaeological advisory role is in place with a range some of the surrounding villages such as Crowcombe of statutory undertakers such as Wessex Water and and Nether Stowey. The project has received a first Bristol Water and a service level agreement is now in round pass and the HES is working closely with the place with Wessex Water to ensure that archaeological Quantock AONB team to develop the project, which advice is incorporated into all engineering schemes. if approved will run until 2024. Alongside managing The Somerset Historic Building on the success of the Avalon Marshes Environment Record, Chris Webster has coordinated Landscape Partnership project funded by the Heritage a volunteer-based project mapping and recording Lottery Fund, work continues at the Avalon Marshes information from Somerset Tithe maps. This work Centre near Shapwick. This community heritage project has now added over 150,000 historic field names to is coordinated by Richard Brunning and provides an the HER mapping, a most impressive achievement. opportunity for local volunteers to meet every week In addition, over 900 new entries were added to to help with the construction and decoration of the the HER, many of these being the results of the reconstructed buildings. A key partner to this project Blackdown Hills aerial survey and reconnaissance is Natural England and they have now transformed the project funded by Historic England and carried out by surrounding site and invested in new buildings and Devon County Council. infrastructure to make this an important visitor hub for Several field monuments around the county are on the Somerset Levels and Moors. It is hoped that the site the Heritage at Risk register maintained by Historic will be open to the public at the end of 2019. England. The HES works closely with Historic A programme of outreach continues each year 84 SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGY 2018 and staff from the HES give regular lectures around Bathampton, Glebe Cottage, ST 773 661, the county and beyond. Guided walks around local BaNES HER 66003 heritage sites in the care of the SWHT are a key A resistivity survey was undertaken by Bath part of the outreach programme and several walks and Counties Archaeological Society to further were held in 2018 notably to Cothelstone Hill and to investigate a possible medieval structure in front of Marston Magna. Glebe Cottage. The results suggest that the previously Somerset County Council supports a small identified stub wall continues to some depth, programme of public realm enhancement projects around indicating that there was buried sub-structure. An the county and Nic Wall coordinates this work with apparent circular feature is also present underneath Heike Bernhardt and Andy Stevens. Work has started on the front lawn of Glebe Cottage. the repair and refurbishment of historic milestones on (Chris Webster) the A38 in the Sedgemoor area and conservation repairs to several SCC owned heritage sites. Chapel Allerton, ST 408 501, The SWHT continues to evolve and take on Somerset HER 39481 new projects and areas of responsibility providing GeoFlo undertook geophysical survey in a field opportunities for the HES to offer advice and comment known as Poolhayes which contains a number of on a wide range of archaeological and conservation linear earthworks, some of which relate to an old projects around the county. The service is expanding track shown on the c. 1840 Tithe Map leading to the to deal with this role and new advice and research mill. The field also contains a large, rectilinear mound projects are being commissioned each year. in the north corner adjacent to the road identified by Archaeological excavations and research continue Richard McDonnell as a pillow mound although this to provide an insight into many aspects of the county’s interpretation has never been confirmed (Somerset rich heritage as new sites are investigated, recorded HER 11223). The survey also provided a training and where possible protected for future generations. opportunity for members of the Allerton History (Bob Croft) Society and Axbridge Archaeological and Local History Society who were instructed in survey techniques, SURVEY, FIELDWORK AND EXTENSIVE SITES including the use of the gradiometer and resistivity meter and how to process the results. The project was Bath, Prior Park, Monument Field, ST 762 631 funded by a grant from the SANHS Maltwood Fund. A geophysical survey was carried out by Bath and The gradiometer survey detected a series of linear Counties Archaeological Society on Monument Field magnetic anomalies on differing alignments suggestive a space that is now used as playing fields by Prior of at least two different activity phases, one of which Park College. Its aims were to locate evidence of appears to be associated with the former route across three structures known or thought to have existed on the field to the mill. No significant anomalies were the field but now gone: a Monument to Ralph Allen recorded adjacent to the possible pillow mound. built in the 18th century, a Gothic Lodge from the (Liz Caldwell) 16th century thought to have been partly incorporated in the later monument and the very much earlier 6th- Hinkley Point Connection project, North Somerset century Wansdyke. Twin-probe resistance survey Headland Archaeology undertook a watching brief of revealed footings of at least one building in the area boreholes and trial pits associated with the electricity as well as the line of a dyke. The survey showed a grid connection route for Hinkley Point C power bank with a ditch to the north with a possible second station. Key peat horizons with organic sediments ditch running parallel to the south. were identified and recorded. Peat deposits were (John Oswin and Tim Lunt) encountered as deep as 23m below ground level, the most recent formation being approximately 3m below Bath, Royal Victoria Park, ST 740 653, ground level. The peat deposits were sampled should BaNES HER 65944 further analysis be required. No archaeological A second phase of geophysical survey was undertaken features or remains were identified. by Bath and Counties Archaeological Society. The (Harriet Bryant-Buck, Robyn results of resistivity and magnetometer surveys Pelling and Tom Cochrane) revealed several different linear features amongst other anomalies, some of which are likely to be recent. Hinton Charterhouse, Hinton Farm, ST 766 579, (Chris Webster) BaNES HER 66107 A detailed magnetometer survey was conducted 85 SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY, 2018 by Sumo Geophysics over approximately 1.4 ha of Rodney Stoke, Manor Farm, ST 482 501, arable farmland. No definite archaeological responses Somerset HER 39185 were identified. Geophysical surveys were undertaken by ALERT (Chris Webster) in fields around the farm. In West Close a possible trackway was detected together with a small Long Ashton, Gatcombe Farm, ST 52290 70065, rectangular structure. A test pit here located a wall N Somerset HER ENS2090 construction trench and recovered Roman pottery and A geophysical survey, comprising detailed magnetometry, a possible tessera. The paddock north of the modern was carried out by Archaeological Surveys Ltd adjacent to house was very disturbed in the magnetic survey but the scheduled area of Gatcombe Roman site. The results resistivity showed substantial foundations, possibly indicate the presence of a number of positive anomalies, relating to the medieval house which is known to have however their origin is uncertain.
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