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Corner of Saunders Road and Penarth Road, Cardiff: archaeological watching brief

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Contents Page

Summary.......................................................................................................................2Acknowledgements......................................................................................................2Copyright notice...........................................................................................................2

1. Introduction..........................................................................................................3

1.1 Project background and commission.............................................................31.2 Location and Topography..............................................................................31.3 Geology..........................................................................................................41.4 Historical and archaeological background.....................................................4

2. Methodology.........................................................................................................83. Results...................................................................................................................84. Conclusion..........................................................................................................11Bibliography............................................................................................................12Appendix 1: Context list.........................................................................................13Appendix 2: Auger Results....................................................................................14Appendix 3: The Finds...........................................................................................15

Figures Page

Figure 1: Site location (blue circle)...............................................................................3Figure 2: Plan showing location of development area (red outline)..............................3Figure 3: Speed's map of Cardiff (1610)......................................................................4Figure 4: Location of the development area (red) on the 1st edition OS map (1880)...5Figure 5: Location of the development area (red) on the 2nd edition OS map (1901)..6Figure 6: Location of the development area (red) on the 3rd edition OS map (1920)..7Figure 7: Location of the development area (red) on the 4th edition OS map (1942)...8

Plates Page

Plate 1: View to the northeast of the medieval town wall [300] showing the lower courses of sub-rectangular stone............................................................................9Plate 2: View to the northwest of the medieval wall [300] showing the slight changein the line of the wall beneath the modern tiling panels........................................9Plate 3: Northeast facing section including section through wall [208]........................9Plate 4: View of north facing section after removal of large concrete foundation......10Plate 5: Showing cut [104] through natural clay (106) containing possible rubblefoundation [105] overlain by demolition deposits (101), (102) and (103)..........10

Corner of Saunders Road and Penarth Road, Cardiff: archaeological watching brief

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Summary

Sleeperz Hotels Ltd have received planning consent for the construction of a newhotel (Application No. 04/0194) at the corner of Saunders Road and Penarth Road,Cardiff.The Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust (GGAT Projects) was commissioned toundertake the watching brief on all ground works. This took place between 24th Apriland 19th June 2007. A section of Cardiff’s medieval town wall was revealed and recorded. A number or largely unstratified finds of post-medieval date were collected and retained. Other archaeological features and deposits recorded included a post-medieval wall and industrial deposits of a similar date.

Acknowledgements

This project was managed by Richard Roberts BA and the fieldwork undertaken byRowena Hart BSc MA. The photographs and report were prepared by Rowena HartBSc MA, with illustrations by Paul Jones (GGAT Senior Illustrator) and potteryanalysis by Steve Sell BA.Thanks are extended to Phillip Walker, Craig Flannagan and Stephen Shaw of CowlinConstruction.

Copyright notice

The copyright of this report is held by Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust Ltd;GGAT has granted an exclusive licence to Sleeperz Hotels Ltd

and their agents to useand reproduce the material it contains. Ordnance Survey maps are reproduced under licence (AL 10005976), annotations are GGAT copyright.