Lower Swansea Valley, Swansea: archaeological desk-based assessment
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1.1 Planning history................................................................................................................41.2 Specification and methodology for study.........................................................................41.3 Assessment criteria...........................................................................................................4
2.1 Location and Topography................................................................................................72.2 Geology............................................................................................................................72.3 Walkover survey..............................................................................................................72.4 General historical and archaeological background........................................................102.4.1 Prehistoric (up to AD43) and Roman (AD43 to 410).................................................102.4.2 Early Medieval (410 to 1066).....................................................................................102.4.3 Medieval (1066 to 1485).............................................................................................102.4.4 Post-medieval, Industrial, and modern (1485 to present)...........................................112.5 Specific Historical and Archaeological background......................................................112.5.1 The Swansea Vale Railway.........................................................................................12
4.1 Effect on known sites (Table 3).....................................................................................184.2 Effect on new sites.........................................................................................................23
Sources cited in text...................................................................................................................25Cartographic sources..................................................................................................................26 Appendix I: Walkover Survey....................................................................................................27Appendix II: Map Regression....................................................................................................30Appendix III: Aerial Photographs with Coverage of the Evaluation Area................................35Appendix IV: Gazetteer of archaeological interests..................................................................36
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Front cover: Six Pit Station (ID LSV025) as rebuilt by the Swansea Vale Railway Society, looking northwest
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Lower Swansea Valley, Swansea: archaeological desk-based assessment
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Figure 2: Location of the development area (red), study area (green) and archaeologicalinterests (yellow).............................................................................................................9
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GGAT Projects have undertaken an assessment of the archaeological effects of a proposed regeneration of an area of conifer plantation in the Lower Swansea Valley. The assessment
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