tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55466344026870964262024-03-13T09:49:20.940-07:00Slaughterbridge projectsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5546634402687096426.post-77003631411809587742007-09-02T11:03:00.000-07:002013-09-14T07:43:18.135-07:00Welcome<h3 class="bordertop" id="Summary">
Projects</h3>
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<strong>This site is no longer updated. However the project continues and can be followed as <a href="http://www.northcornwallheritage.co.uk/">North Cornwall Heritage.</a></strong>
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There are two overlapping projects involving Slaughterbridge; the Slaughterbridge Training Excavation Project (STEP) and the Tintagel Environs Survey Project (TESP).<br />
<strong>STEP</strong> - Slaughterbridge is a site with a situation and archaeology that are highly suitable for providing training opportunities for university archaeology students, and experience for a more general public. Short periods of excavation are carried out through out the year, whenever they are needed by the students, for their courses, or as part of National Archaeology Week, for the public. The excavation is put in context with practicals and lectures on; surveying, using maps, digital resources, aerial photographs, planning, finds identification and recording. All of these make use of features of the site. The excavation is on display to the public as part of the Arthurian Centre.<br />
<strong>TESP</strong> - A detailed study of the early medieval sites in the ten parishes between Tintagel on the coast and the northern end of Bodmin Moor, and their relationship to each other. The methodology will mainly consist of geophysics and field walking. This is contextualised in a desktop study of the development of the landscape. It will incidentally provide a wider context for excavation work at Slaughterbridge (STEP). This project is directed by Dr. Niall Finneran of Winchester University.<br />
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Slaughterbridge</h3>
The site consists of two main elements. Firstly, on the hillside the earthworks of a small medieval settlement and post-medieval farm called Old Melorn. Secondly in the valley bottom, built in to the river cliffs, the mostly buried remains of a mid-eighteenth century garden created by Lady Dowager Falmouth (Charlotte Boscawen). The centre of this garden is the most important feature on the site the 6th century ‘Arthur’s Stone’ inscribed with ogham and latin. Both sites were attached to the nearby Worthyvale house.<br />
The interim picture of the site is this. The Arthur Stone was erected as a memorial beside a road that runs across the site in the 6th century. In the medieval period a settlement called Melorn developed here, possibly with a chapel. This settlement shrunk to a farm and then was demolished. One of the buildings was last in use as a smithy. There was also a possible mill below the village. Charlotte and her husband Hugh Boscawen moved to Worthyvale Manor around 1700. The garden was built during the first half of the 18th century, with a path leading from a ‘ folly’ on a low mound, via winding paths along river cliff terraces, rock cut steps and a patterned cobbled area with seats. Paths lead to the relocated Arthur Stone in a natural ‘grotto’ beside the River Camel. She died in 1754 and the garden was soon lost and forgotten. However the fame of the stone continued to attract visitors to the site, leading to a ticket office (now an earthwork) being built near the stone in the 19th century.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5546634402687096426.post-13451455080628491462007-09-02T11:01:00.000-07:002007-09-22T07:42:46.972-07:00STEP (Slaughterbridge Training Excavation Project)<span style="font-weight: bold;">Project Design</span><br /><br />This is a shortened version of the full project design. It has been drawn up following MoRPHE, the new project management standard used by English Heritage. The project began it the summer of 2003, since then numerous members of the public have been involved with the excavations. Most of the students so far involved have come from the University of Bristol, the School of Oriental and African Studies, and from the United Arab Emirates. An interim report is due for publication in 2008.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Summary Description:</span> The site at Slaughterbridge is part of the visitor attraction of The Arthurian Centre, which provides interpretation for visitors of the 6th century Arthur Stone, which is inscribed with latin and ogham, and which lies in one of the sites reputed to be of King Arthur’s last battle. Slaughterbridge is a site who’s situation and archaeology are highly suitable for providing training opportunities for university archaeology students, and experience for a more general public. Short periods of excavation can be carried out through out the year, whenever they are needed by the students, for their courses, or as part of National Archaeology Week, for the public. The excavation is put in context with practicals and lectures on surveying, using maps, digital resources, aerial photographs, planning, finds identification and recording, All of these make use of features of the site.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Background:</span> The sites suitability for training excavation experience is mostly due to the geology. The stability of the soil is such that no backfilling is required (metre high sections have remained exposed and stable for 5 years). Also Cornwall’s lack of frosts mean that the features exposed through excavation remain on show to the public, which adds to the visitor experience of the site. The site is easily accessible, with on site training rooms, parking, loos, and camping. The site is not under threat of development, and the landowner is the main instigator of the project. The archaeology of the site is varied. It consists of buried remains of a medieval village with a mill (Old Melorn), an 18th century garden with water features and mosaics, and even a 19th century ticket office. The structural features exposed during excavation are clearly defined, and the stratigraphy is not complicated, making it easy for first time excavators. The project will also contribute data to the Tintagel Environs Survey Project (TESP, a separate project), which also has a strong element of training.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aims and Objectives: </span><br /><ul><li>To provide training opportunity for novice students.</li><li>To provide “have a go” opportunity for the public, and schools.</li><li>To understand the context of the Arthur Stone in its 18th century garden setting.</li><li>To understand the site of the village of Old Melorn.</li><li>To consolidate appropriate remains for public display.</li></ul><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Project Scope:</span> The scope of STEP is restricted to the features on land belonging to The Arthurian Centre. However, there is no time restriction; excavation can continue for as long as there are features to dig, and students or volunteers willing to carry out the work.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Interfaces:</span> The Tintagel Environs Survey Project (TESP) results will provide a wider context for the work on STEP as it will look at the ten parishes surrounding the Slaughterbridge. STEP will provide data as one of the sites studied in depth as part of the TESP survey. The training experience given by TESP fieldwork will contribute to that provided by STEP.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Project Team Structure:</span><br />Project Executive – Joe Parsons (Manager of The Arthurian Centre).<br />Project Manager – Nick Hanks. Additional specialisms/responsibilities:- lecturing/training, project & excavation records manager, documentary research.<br />(Core Team Members – Joe Parsons, Nick Hanks, Dr. Niall Finneran.)<br />Expert – Dr. Niall Finneran. Excavation Supervisor. Additional specialisms/responsibilities:- lecturing/training, lithics, liaising with academics/academic departments.<br />Expert – Joe Parsons. Site Manager. Additional specialisms/responsibilities:- finds storage, publicity, exhibition, documentary research.<br />Expert – Sam Parsons. Local Education Liaison.<br />Expert – Rachel Foster. Experimental / Reconstruction Archaeologist.<br />Expert – Vacant. Cornish Pottery Analyst.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Budget (Resources):</span> This is nearly a zero budget project (though the site and the team do incur some significant expenses), sources of funding for parts of the project costs or expansions of the project will be looked into. Mostly the project will rely upon the resources that the core project team members can possibly call upon. Any contribution from participating academic institutions in the form of time, loan of equipment, or fees for lecturing, would be most welcome.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5546634402687096426.post-47225403563207228962007-09-02T10:57:00.000-07:002007-09-22T07:47:22.763-07:00TESP (Tintagel Environs Survey Project)<span style="font-weight: bold;">Project Design</span><br /><br />This is a shortened version of the full project design. It has been drawn up following MoRPHE, the new project management standard used by English Heritage. The project began its planning stage in the summer of 2007.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Summary Description:</span> A detailed study of the early medieval sites in the area between Tintagel on the coast and the northern end of Bodmin Moor, and their relationship to each other. The methodology will mainly consist of geophysics and field walking. This is contextualised in a desktop study of the development of the landscape.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Background:</span> To provide wider context for excavation work at Slaughterbridge Training Excavation Project (STEP, a separate project).<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Research Aims and Objectives:</span><br />If it is assumed that the sub-Roman occupation of Tintagel was seasonal, then other sites in the area may produce similar wares for some peripatetic ruler. By both studying placename, and landscape evidence, it is planned to target areas for geophysical and fieldwalking survey.<br />In particular looking at possible reoccupation of hillforts.<br /><br />Also any evidence of tin working on the sites, as this was a major source of wealth in Cornwall.<br />Possible routes across the landscape linking port of Tintagel with Tin extraction sites on Bodmin Moor.<br /><br />Reconstruct the landscape before (Bronze Age, Iron Age-Roman), during (Post-Roman, Anglo-Saxon) and after study period (Medieval), from mapping plot of finds and features.<br />To incidentally provide contextual understanding for the Slaughterbridge site (STEP).<br />To add additional training experience in archaeological fieldwork as part of that for STEP.<br />Additional objectives will be added by those joining the project bringing their own research interests to bear on the same study area, where there will be some benefit to the projects other aims.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Project Scope:</span> The site of Slaughterbridge, the location for STEP is at the centre of the TESP study area. The TESP project is limited to the ten parishes that cover the area from Tintagel on the coast to the northern end of Bodmin Moor:-<br /><ul><li>St. Teath</li><li>St. Breward</li><li>Camelford</li><li>Advent</li><li>Tintagel</li><li>Davidstow</li><li>Michaelstow</li><li>Lesnewth</li><li>Forrabury and Minster</li><li>Trevalga</li></ul>This is an area of 176.15sqkm (17615 hectares) with a perimeter of 75km including 16km of coast. Some consideration will be given to important sites just outside of this area (e.g. Tregeare Round which is 0.6km outside of area).<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Interfaces:</span> The Slaughterbridge (STEP) will be one of the subject sites for inclusion in TESP, as well as the results from TESP providing a wider context for STEP, but each will be managed as separate projects.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Project Team Structure:</span><br />Project Manager & Executive – Dr. Niall Finneran (Winchester University).<br />(Core Team Members – Dr. Niall Finneran, Joe Parsons, Nick Hanks.)<br />Expert – Kate Clark. Period specialism:- Mesolithic-Neolithic-Early Bronze Age.<br />Expert – Joe Parsons. Period specialism for project Late Bronze Age-Iron Age. Additional specialisms/responsibilities:- site visits, landowner negotiation, finds storage.<br />Expert – Dr. Niall Finneran (Winchester University). Period specialism for project Roman-SubRoman-Early Medieval. Additional specialisms/responsibilities:- lithics, liaising with academics/academic departments.<br />Expert – Nick Hanks (Bristol University). Period specialism for project Medieval-Post-Medieval. Additional specialisms/responsibilities:- landscape desk study, data mapping, project documentation.<br />Expert – Petra Wade. Gravestone Analyst.<br />Expert - Dr. Penny Needham. Early Mediaeval Inscriptions Specialist.<br />Expert – Vacant. Cornish Pottery Analyst.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Budget (Resources):</span> Essentially this is a zero budget project, however sources of funding for parts of the project costs or expansions of the project will be looked into. Mostly the project will rely upon the resources that the core project team members can possibly call upon.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5546634402687096426.post-41607433178857069242007-09-02T10:47:00.000-07:002007-09-02T11:57:34.137-07:00Historical background<p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/Rtr3vgEbIHI/AAAAAAAAABQ/Vvf8WROpJ5o/s1600-h/Stone1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/Rtr3vgEbIHI/AAAAAAAAABQ/Vvf8WROpJ5o/s320/Stone1.jpg" alt="Arthur's Stone" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105665523012280434" border="0" /></a><strong>Arthur's Stone -</strong> The most significant feature on the site is the famous “Arthur Stone’ dated to the 6th century. This stone has inscriptions on it in ogham and latin, from which the stone is dated. The most common interpretation of the latin inscription is LATINI IC IACIT FILIUS MA[..]RI, meaning ‘[the stone] of Latinus, here lies the son of Ma[-]’ or ‘[the body] of Latinus lies here, son of Ma[-]’. MA could variously have been MAGARI, MAGAIRI, MAFARI and MACARI. All that is now readable of the ogham is [-]NI.</p> <p>The stone may have lead to the site being associated with King Arthur's legendary last battle. However, the earliest record of the battle tradition is by Leland in 1538 “By this ryner Arture fawght his last field yn token wherof the people fynd there, in plowing bones and harneys.’ The first reference to the stone is later in 1602. What the people may have been found may have been evidence of the battle fought here in 823 between the Cornish and the Saxons, which lead to a chantry chapel to be built for the souls of the slain. In 1864-5 a “scimitar shaped sword’ a gold collar and spearheads, now lost, were found near the stone, but the picture of the sword suggests this may date from the supposed skirmish that happened here during the English Civil War, as a cannon ball was found near Worthyvale.</p> <p>The stone is known to have been moved at least twice, once to be used as part of a footbridge, and then again to be placed by Lady Falmouth at the foot of a cliff in her gardens. So its original location is not known. However, these memorial stones were generally placed beside roads, and it now lies close to ford of at least medieval date, so it has probably not moved far from it's original location.</p> <p><strong>Worthyvale -</strong> Worthyvale was first mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086) as GURDEVALAN. In later centuries the barton (the buildings) were separated from the manor estate of Worthyvale. The present building is thought to be early 17th century and possibly extended in the mid 17th century. The Slaughterbridge which incorporates the gate piers for the drive of the house, is also thought ot date from this time. However around 1700 it is remodelled when the Boscawens have become resident. The house was bought in 1674 by the Boscawen family of Falmouth to use as a country residence for the eldest sons, and possibly as a base for hunting on Bodmin Moor. The Boscawens sold the property in the late 18th century. It then passed through many changes of ownership being used as a farm, without major alterations.</p> <p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/Rtr4rQEbIJI/AAAAAAAAABg/2i83NA1CXe4/s1600-h/salead1804_thumb.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/Rtr4rQEbIJI/AAAAAAAAABg/2i83NA1CXe4/s400/salead1804_thumb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105666549509464210" border="0" /></a><br /><strong>Old Melorn -</strong> The settlement of Melorn is first recorded in 1296. The name is thought to come from the Cornish for stone MEN and fox LOWARN. By the time it is bought by the Boscawens in 1674 it seems to have been reduced to merely a single farm. The Parsons family (who now own the site) became tenants before it was demolished by the early 19th century. Neither the placename nor the buildings of Melorn appears on the 18th century maps. The Tithe Map of 1838 shows no buildings or enclosures on the site, but MELORNE is shown as a name for five fields around the area now being excavated. The Ordnance Survey map of 1887 shows the square earthwork that overlies the buildings as it was prior to excavation, and labels them OLD MELORN. MELORN appears half a mile to the West.</p> <p><strong>Lady Falmouth’s Garden -</strong> Charlotte Godfrey (1685-1754) was eldest daughter of Colonel Charles Godfrey, master of the jewel office, and Arabella Churchill. Arabella was sister of the John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, who won the battle of Blenheim in 1704, and who built Blenheim Palace. Before her marriage to Charles Godfrey, Arabella was mistress to King James II having two sons and a daughter by him. On the 23rd of April 1700 Charlotte married Hugh Boscawen (c.1680-1734), the surviving son of Edward Boscawen MP for Tregothnan where the families main residence has been since 1335. They moved into Worthyvale, which may have been rebuilt for them as “HB 1703’ is carved above the door. The garden may have been started at this time when the house was improved.</p> <p>By 1720 Hugh has become the first Viscount Falmouth and they are living with their 9 children at Tregothnan. He had the previous year been a chief speaker for the peerage bill, and so was maliciously nicknamed ‘Lord Foulmouth’. Contemporaries also described him as ‘a blundering honest man’ and ‘a blundering blockhead’. In 1727 Charlotte tried to obtain the place of lady of the bedchamber to the Queen, but she offered a bride to get Mrs Clayton to speak to the Queen on her behalf, which so much offence she never spoke to the queen, and Charlotte's ambition at court ended there.</p> <p>On the death of her husband in 1734 Charlotte fell in to legal dispute with her own children over her right to stay at the family seat of Tregothnan. She appears to have lost as she returns to Worthyvale by 1738 and stayed there until her death on March 22 1754. While there she built or improved the gardens including the quartz cobble mosiac that bears her initials.</p> <p>The only source documentary source for the garden is Borlase in 1754. “This inscrib’d Stone, nine feet nine inches long and two feet three inches wide, was formerly a foot bridge near the late Lord Falmouth’s seat of Worthyvale. It was called Slaughter Bridge, and, as tradition says, from a bloody battle fought on this ground, fatal to the great King Arthur. A few years since, the present Lady Dowager Falmouth, shaping a rough kind of hill, about 100 yards off, with spiral walks, remov’d this stone from the place where it served as a bridge, and building a low piece of masonry for it’s support, plac’d it at the foot of her improvements, where it still lyes in one of the natural grotts of the hill.’ So the garden was complete for sometime by 1754. This implies that the stone was sent up below the cliff in it’s current position at the base of the cliff, and not as has been suggested by some at the foot of the mound, and having since fallen down the cliff. Also as he states “lyes’ rather than stands, it may possibly have been deliberately placed on its side to use as a bench, or to more closely resemble “the tomb’ of King Arthur, that it was thought to be.</p> <p>The garden quickly vanishes, for many later writers visit the stone, but no mentions is made of the garden. In fact with the arrival of the railway a ticket office is built on the site. It becomes truely lost until trampling by cattle reveals a few of the quartz cobbles in the late 1990s. The Tithe Map of 1839 calls the field that contained the mound “Folly’ which probably refers to a garden structure that once stood upon the mound, and the two fields to the north are called “Higher Castle Park’ and “Lower Castle Park’. Whether this refers to a garden feature or something else is unclear. But the walled garden that is still there today, is shown and labelled as a garden, It is halfway between the house and the garden site. It may be the only surviving feature of a formal landscape on the approach to the house. The mound survived as a slight feature until the late 20th century, when a house was built on the site.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5546634402687096426.post-54856593435908573412007-09-02T10:35:00.000-07:002007-09-02T12:23:48.602-07:00Excavation<h3 id="T1" class="bordertop">Old Melorn</h3> <p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/Rtr1cAEbIDI/AAAAAAAAAAw/ZyiSJmvMWag/s1600-h/trenchloc.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/Rtr1cAEbIDI/AAAAAAAAAAw/ZyiSJmvMWag/s320/trenchloc.gif" alt="Location of trenches" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105662988981575730" border="0" /></a>A number of trenches have been dug here. The most revealing have been Trenches 1 and 3 on Building 3. A corner of this building was buried below the square enclosure E1. This was the first trench dug on the site, and began as part of the Time Team Big Dig in 2003. It has revealed two ends of the building. The west end has two rooms, a granite pillar, fireplace and the base of a spiral stair. The east end (Trench 3) has two rooms, a doorway and several different floor levels indicating changes of use or abandonment (but the sequence was not clear due to robbing of the building), flagstones of different quality, and a furnace cinder floor suggesting metal working in the final stage of the buildings use. Roof slates, window glass and lead, a musket ball, some redeposited worked flint, a curious tin disc and domestic pottery from the 13th to 18th centuries was found in the west end (Trench 1). A surprising find was a 15th century spur from the fill around the base of the granite pillar. The east end had a small quantity of similar pottery, but little else except the remains of the metal work belonging to the door.</p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/Rtr10wEbIEI/AAAAAAAAAA4/8OwrCk4n95U/s1600-h/spur2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/Rtr10wEbIEI/AAAAAAAAAA4/8OwrCk4n95U/s320/spur2.jpg" alt="15th century spur" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105663414183338050" border="0" /></a> <p>Trench 2, on Building 1, revealed much less than expected. This was due to the soil being so stable the clear lines in the turf that were thought to be walls turned out to be robber trenches. So only a few of the stones of the foundation of the walls were shown to still be in place, and floor surface, such as flag stones, seems to have been robbed. However, a half cellar which was added to this building which left no trace on the surface has survived to a depth of 0.5m, but also without a clear floor surface. This area was virtually free of finds except for some roof slates, some still with their nails in situ.</p> <h3 id="T2" class="bordertop">Lady Falmouth's Garden</h3> <p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/Rtr2OAEbIFI/AAAAAAAAABA/qqLpNDY-ABE/s1600-h/circlethumb.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/Rtr2OAEbIFI/AAAAAAAAABA/qqLpNDY-ABE/s320/circlethumb.jpg" alt="Lady Falmouth's garden" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105663847975034962" border="0" /></a>The main feature revealed during excavation in the garden is a mosiac pavement made of quartz cobbles. At the centre is a 2m circle of the cobbles with the initials CF (Charlotte Falmouth). And within it a crescent of nine quartz cobbles (the largest in the pavement). This would have been visible from the terrace and the cliff above. Immediately behind this circle is a level area (1.25m long, 0.75m) in the slight slope of the pavement. This suggests the location of a garden seat. To one end of this is a small post hole, or dent, (c.0.2m diameter, c.0.05m depth) in the pavement, in which were found some nails. However, there was no corresponding feature at the other end of the level area. At the north end of the mosaic is a rectangle free of cobbles which would have been the bas for a structure, possibly wooden steps to the terrace above.</p> <p>A number of fragments of 18th century bottle glass were found on the pavement surface. Most significantly in a large deposit at the southern end of the site, one had an embossed stamp saying ’N Barriball, White Hart, 1716’. (The N is reversed.) The White Hart is a local Inn not far from the Slaughterbridge. This suggests a possible date for the start of the garden of shortly after 1716, but Charlotte's husband did not become Viscount Falmouth until 1720 and by that time she was no longer living at Worthyvale. So the garden could also date from her later residencey between 1735 and 1754.</p> <p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/Rtr2fwEbIGI/AAAAAAAAABI/s8xBPx2Fqgo/s1600-h/bottle.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/Rtr2fwEbIGI/AAAAAAAAABI/s8xBPx2Fqgo/s320/bottle.JPG" border="0" alt="bottle fragment" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105664152917712994" /></a>Above this terrace is another to the north, which is similarly without trees, and has the remains of a parapet wall. This had partly collapsed on to the pavement below. There is access between these two levels is by a short flight of steps cut into the bedrock at the far north end of this terrace. These steps are now incorporated into the current visitor path. Other rock cut steps, now partly destroyed by undermining by the River Camel lead down to the Arthur Stone.</p> <p>Other excavation work is being done to trace the line of paths leading towards the mosiac pavement, and to plan the cascades which are submerged in the river. The level of the River Camel was lower in the 18th century, when at least one mill diverted a significant amount of the flow of the river past this point.</p> <h3 id="T3" class="bordertop">Battlefield</h3> <p>Work has only just begun on the first trench on the Battlefield, but a few finds below the surface including some possible prehistoric worked quartz.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5546634402687096426.post-65962803033782689942007-09-02T10:31:00.000-07:002007-09-22T07:49:25.403-07:00Landscape<p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/Rtr5YQEbIKI/AAAAAAAAABo/E_PKwF5c1I4/s1600-h/sitefeatures1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/Rtr5YQEbIKI/AAAAAAAAABo/E_PKwF5c1I4/s400/sitefeatures1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105667322603577506" border="0" /></a>The site is 5km NW of the open moorland of Bodmin Moor, on the southern edge of the parish of Forrabury and Minster. The river in the north-south valley is that of the river Camel, which runs south towards the village of Camelford (1.5km due south). The Slaughterbridge carries the B3314. It bridges the river just south of the point where two water courses significantly increase the flow of the river. The geology is of slate.</p> <p><strong>Worthyvale Manor</strong> - Mentioned in the Domesday book, but the current building dates from the early 17th century, extended and remodelled by the Boscawen family in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.</p> <p><strong>Walled Garden</strong> - A surviving part of the garden along the driveway.</p> <p><strong>Folly Mound</strong> - A low mound which may have been topped with a folly once stood here. Now the site is occupied by a modern house.</p> <p><strong>Lady Falmouth's Garden</strong> - The remains consist of; small cascades in the river, rock-cut steps, a large mosiac of quartz cobbles with traces of seating, and the Arthur Stone lieing at the foot of a river cliff. Built during the mid 18th century by Charlotte Boscawen. The cobbled mosiac bears the initials CF, Charlotte Falmouth.</p> <p><strong>Arthur's Stone</strong> - The 6th century stone memorial with an inscription in latin and ogham. It was moved here by Lady Falmouth, from where it had been part of a bridge.</p> <p><strong>Ford</strong> - Built of large granite blocks, with a field boundary aligned upon it, indicating the course of a road. It must predate the 17th or 18th century driveway of Worthyvale Manor.</p> <p><strong>Slaughterbridge</strong> - 17th or 18th century bridge that incorporated the gate piers to the drive of Worthyvale Manor.</p> <p><strong>Mill & leat</strong> - Earthworks now partly covered by trees.</p> <p><strong>Old Melorn</strong> - A medieval village is first recorded here in 1296. 18th century documents refer only to a farm here. The Tithe Map shows nothing here except a field named Melorn. The earthworks of a series of buildings are all that remains above ground. These are partly covered by the square earthwork shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1887.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5546634402687096426.post-44878164187492134152007-09-02T10:27:00.000-07:002007-09-02T11:50:16.438-07:00Photo gallery<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsBdQEbIMI/AAAAAAAAAB4/qhRlENUKv08/s1600-h/siteview.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsBdQEbIMI/AAAAAAAAAB4/qhRlENUKv08/s400/siteview.jpg" alt="Across the valley" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105676204595945666" border="0" /></a><br />The site, viewed from across the valley<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsBlgEbINI/AAAAAAAAACA/PkIa2YGSx28/s1600-h/camel1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsBlgEbINI/AAAAAAAAACA/PkIa2YGSx28/s400/camel1.jpg" alt="River Camel" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105676346329866450" border="0" /></a><br />The River Camel<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsFmwEbIbI/AAAAAAAAADw/f6-lPdhFIOI/s1600-h/stone2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsFmwEbIbI/AAAAAAAAADw/f6-lPdhFIOI/s400/stone2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105680765851214258" border="0" /></a><br />The Arthur Stone<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsFTQEbIaI/AAAAAAAAADo/rOwU72l11VQ/s1600-h/stone3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsFTQEbIaI/AAAAAAAAADo/rOwU72l11VQ/s400/stone3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105680430843765154" border="0" /></a><br />Inscription on the Arthur Stone<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsFBgEbIZI/AAAAAAAAADg/ytsGap66W-Q/s1600-h/view.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsFBgEbIZI/AAAAAAAAADg/ytsGap66W-Q/s400/view.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105680125901087122" border="0" /></a><br />General view of the Old Melorn site<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsEmgEbIYI/AAAAAAAAADY/DdER-t1eGT0/s1600-h/cellar1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsEmgEbIYI/AAAAAAAAADY/DdER-t1eGT0/s400/cellar1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105679662044619138" border="0" /></a><br />Roof slate in cellar, Trench 2<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsEWgEbIXI/AAAAAAAAADQ/G_p4jupirZs/s1600-h/pillar.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsEWgEbIXI/AAAAAAAAADQ/G_p4jupirZs/s400/pillar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105679387166712178" border="0" /></a><br />Pillar in trench 1<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsEKwEbIWI/AAAAAAAAADI/2OIm7xgmhwY/s1600-h/tumble.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsEKwEbIWI/AAAAAAAAADI/2OIm7xgmhwY/s400/tumble.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105679185303249250" border="0" /></a><br />Fieldwall in trench 1<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsD5wEbIVI/AAAAAAAAADA/dmUFrwVTiTk/s1600-h/doorway.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsD5wEbIVI/AAAAAAAAADA/dmUFrwVTiTk/s400/doorway.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105678893245473106" border="0" /></a><br />Doorway in trench 3<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsDrQEbIUI/AAAAAAAAAC4/w-ShBBSFM2w/s1600-h/battle.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsDrQEbIUI/AAAAAAAAAC4/w-ShBBSFM2w/s400/battle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105678644137369922" border="0" /></a><br />The battlefield above the garden<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsDdQEbITI/AAAAAAAAACw/FlbJ4QgNz7s/s1600-h/garden1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsDdQEbITI/AAAAAAAAACw/FlbJ4QgNz7s/s400/garden1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105678403619201330" border="0" /></a><br />The garden site at the beginning<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsDOgEbISI/AAAAAAAAACo/gQsWg3hG4FI/s1600-h/circle.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsDOgEbISI/AAAAAAAAACo/gQsWg3hG4FI/s400/circle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105678150216130850" border="0" /></a><br />Crescent and circle<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsC6gEbIRI/AAAAAAAAACg/VqOj34kpux0/s1600-h/edge.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsC6gEbIRI/AAAAAAAAACg/VqOj34kpux0/s400/edge.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105677806618747154" border="0" /></a><br />The edge of the pavement<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsCsAEbIQI/AAAAAAAAACY/ppto9HXq3g4/s1600-h/diggerrest.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsCsAEbIQI/AAAAAAAAACY/ppto9HXq3g4/s400/diggerrest.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105677557510643970" border="0" /></a><br />The lazy life of the digger<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsChQEbIPI/AAAAAAAAACQ/yVBXkIcA_e0/s1600-h/potwash.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsChQEbIPI/AAAAAAAAACQ/yVBXkIcA_e0/s400/potwash.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105677372827050226" border="0" /></a><br />Pot washing tent<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsCGgEbIOI/AAAAAAAAACI/enlbLscd578/s1600-h/undercover.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qU2gBLT2xys/RtsCGgEbIOI/AAAAAAAAACI/enlbLscd578/s400/undercover.jpg" alt="Undercover archaeology" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105676913265549538" border="0" /></a><br />Undercover archaeologyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com