Bodmin Moor: An Archaeological Survey: Volume 2 : The Industrial and Post-medieval Landscapes

Principal authors: Peter Herring, Adam Sharpe, John R Smith, Colum Giles, with Nicholas Johnson. Editor: Peter Herring. Ebook (PDF) published 2014. Bodmin Moor is an upland landscape, heavily protected, farmed extensively and with an increasingly light touch, and enjoyed by many as a retreat from busier modern worlds. But it is also a place of industry and the home of busy agricultural communities. Well-preserved remains of streamworking, mining, quarrying, clay working, turf cutting and more intensive farming were subjected to archaeological survey and historical research as part of the wider-ranging survey partly covered in the first volume (on prehistoric and medieval landscapes). Supplementing the survey text are aerial photographs and detailed line drawings, mainly plans and elevations, but also reconstructions of sites and schematic representations of processes as well as large-scale maps of key areas. "Bodmin Moor is an upland landscape, heavily protected, farmed extensively and with an increasingly light touch, and enjoyed by many as a retreat from busier modern worlds. But it is also a place of industry and the home of busy agricultural communities. Well-preserved remains of streamworking, mining, quarrying, clay working, turf cutting and more intensive farming were subjected to archaeological survey and historical research as part of the wider-ranging survey partly covered in the first volume (on prehistoric and medieval landscapes). Supplementing the survey text are aerial photographs and detailed line drawings, mainly plans and elevations, but also reconstructions of sites and schematic representations of processes as well as large-scale maps of key areas"--Publisher description List of illustrations vi List of tables viii List of abbreviations viii Preface ix Acknowledgements x Summary xi 1. Background by Peter Herring 3 2. Survey method and sources by Peter Herring 7 3. Resources by Adam Sharpe 15 4. Mining by Adam Sharpe 29 5. Quarrying by Peter Herring 83 6. China clay by John R Smith 101 7. Turf by Peter Herring 117 8. Other uses and activities by Peter Herring 127 9. Agriculture by Peter Herring and Colum Giles 139 10. Industrial settlement and public amenities by Peter Herring 163 11. Transport and communications by John R Smith 171 12. Recommendations for further work by Peter Herring, Adam Sharpe and John R. Smith 181 Appendix: List of mine sites by Adam Sharpe 187 Bibliography 193 Glossary by Peter Herring, Adam Sharpe and John R Smith 197 Index 204 Examines the industrial and post-medieval landscape of Bodmin Moor, including streamworking, mining, quarrying, clay working, turf cutting and intensive farming. Aerial photographs, detailed line drawings, and large-scale maps add to the text This study of the industrial life of Bodmin Moor complements that of the prehistoric and medieval landscape of the Moor published in 1994