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The Old Post Office and Former British Legion, Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan:archaeological field evaluation
Contents Page
Summary.............................................................................................................................2Acknowledgements.............................................................................................................2Copyright notice..................................................................................................................2
1.1 Project background and commission................................................................................31.2 Location, geology and topography...................................................................................31.3 Archaeological and historical interests............................................................................4
Finds report by Andy Sherman BA...................................................................................12
Inventory of contexts.........................................................................................................28
Finds Index........................................................................................................................30
Figures
Figure 1: Location of sites.........................................................................................................7
Figure 2: Location of the Old Post Office development area (red) and evaluationtrenches (blue).........................................................................................................................8
Figure 3: Location of the Former British Legion development area (red) andevaluation trenches (blue).......................................................................................................9
Figure 4: Plan of Trench 1.......................................................................................................14
Figure 5: Northwest facing section of Trench 1....................................................................15
Figure 6: Plan of Trench 2.......................................................................................................16
Figure 7: Southeast facing elevation of cess-pit (2009) area in Trench 2............................17
Figure 8: North facing section of Trench 2............................................................................18
Figure 9: South facing section of Trench 3............................................................................18
Figure 10: Southwest facing section of Trench 5...................................................................19
Figure 11: Southwest facing section of Trench 6...................................................................20
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The Old Post Office and Former British Legion, Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan:archaeological field evaluation
Summary
Mr Nigel England has submitted a planning application to the Vale of Glamorgan Councilthrough his agents Robertson Francis Partnership (Planning Application number 2007/01285/FUL) to demolish former post office outbuildings and replace them with four three-bedroom townhouses (the Old Post Office Site). Mr England has also submitted a planning application (2007/01752/FUL) to demolish a former club house building, in order toreplace it with twelve two-bedroom apartments (the Former British Legion site). Bothdevelopments are located in areas where it is possible that archaeological remains relating tothe medieval and Roman settlement of the area may survive. Therefore, Mr England hascommissioned an archaeological evaluation in advance of the development. At the Old Post Office site, a sub-circular pit (
1005
) was excavated at the base of Trench 1which contained a small assemblage of unabraded medieval pottery, dating this feature to the14th or 15th century. Trench 2 contained a sub-square cesspit/soakaway (
2009
) constructed of faced stone bonded with a very soft, grey-yellow lime mortar, which contained isolated flecksof coal. The composition of this lime mortar suggests a construction date of the late 18thcentury or early 19th century, however, the artefactual evidence recovered from the fill of this feature (
2011
and
2012
) suggest that it did not go out of use until sometime in the late 20thcentury. At the Former British Legion site, a steeply sloping deposit of alluvial clay (
6006
) possibly representing the former course of the River Thaw was partially excavated withinTrench 6. However, as maximum safe working depth was reached it was not possible to fullyexcavate this feature. All archaeologically significant features or structures identified during the course of theevaluation were fully excavated, with the exception of the possible archaic river channel(
6006
). The results of this evaluation demonstrate the presence of medieval activity within theOld Post Office development area and it is possible that further deposits, structures or artefacts may be encountered during construction activities.
Acknowledgements
The project was managed by Richard Lewis BA MIFA and the fieldwork was undertaken byRob Dunning BSc and Andy Sherman BA of GGAT Projects. The finds were processed andanalysed by Andy Sherman. The report was written by Andy Sherman and Rob Dunning andthe illustrations prepared by Rob Dunning and Paul Jones (Senior Illustrator).
Copyright notice
The copyright of this report is held by the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust Ltd, whichhas granted an exclusive licence to Mr Nigel England and his agents to use and reproducematerial it contains. Ordnance Survey maps are reproduced under licence (AL 10005976).Annotations are GGAT copyright.2
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