Site Event/Activity record EEM14658 - 2015: TS - Carnarvon New Pit
Technique(s)
Organisation
Hazel Riley
Date
December 2014
Description
The site was subject to survey work in 2015 in advance of proposed consolidation and new fencing work, following the removal of a larch plantation in 2012. This recorded and identified the remains of mining from four distinct phases. Numerous small, circular pits represent extraction of iron ore in the Roman and/or early medieval periods; large openwork trenches were probably worked in the later medieval and/or early post-medieval periods. The remains of several structures from 19th Century iron mining at Carnarvon New Pit date from two periods: 1866-1872 and 1873-1883.
Sources/Archives (1)
- <1> SEM8170 Report: Riley, H.. 2015. Carnarvon New Pit Iron Mine: Analytical Earthwork Survey.
Location
Location | Carnarvon New Pit, Brompton Regis, Somerset |
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Grid reference | ST 0204 3428 (point) (MasterMap) |
Map sheet | ST03SW |
Civil Parish | BROMPTON REGIS, WEST SOMERSET, SOMERSET |
Related Monuments/Buildings (3)
Record last edited
Feb 7 2017 3:42PM