Flint finds, Selworthy Farm, Holnicote Estate

Record ID:  115645 / MNA168180
Record type:  Find Spot
Protected Status: None Recorded
NT Property:  Holnicote Estate; South West
Civil Parish:  Selworthy; West Somerset; Somerset
Grid Reference:  SS 9200 4564
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Summary

A few pieces of flint were picked up in field O.S.no. 0067, which had been ploughed, rolled and harrowed when it was walked in 1999.

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Most Recent Monitoring

None Recorded

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 500000 BC to 42 AD)

Description

A few pieces of flint were picked up in field O.S.no. 0067, which had been ploughed, rolled and harrowed when it was walked in 1999.Five people, including three volunteers, walked the field from north to south and return, walking about 2.5m/3m apart. The flints were not diagnostic, they are listed in the Finds Book. Condition: fair. [1]


A Heritage Impact Assessment [2] (ENA10084) and Geophysical Survey [3] (ENA10085) were commissioned in 2021 over the southern most area of the farmland either side of the River Aller, including this site. These were undertaken to assess the impact of "Stage 0 river restoration" project that aims to restore natural processes to a length of the River Aller as it flows northwest. The Geophysical Survey identfied numerous anomalies but did not identify obviously significant archaeological remains. Further archaeological mitigation is probably not warranted for this site, given the nature of the results and the proposed development. [2-3]

References

  • <1> SZN48220 - Unpublished document: Isabel Richardson. 2001. Holnicote Estate Archaeological Survey, Somerset. 115645.

  • <2> SNA69060 - Unpublished document: Toop, N. 2021. River Aller Floodplain Reconnection, Heritage Impact Assessment, Holnicote Estate, Somerset.

  • <3> SNA69061 - Geophysical Survey Report: South West Archaeology Ltd. 2021. Land west of Venn Plantation Selworthy, Exmoor, Somerset: Results of a geophysical survey.

Designations

None Recorded

Other Statuses and References

  • HER/SMR Reference (External) (Exmoor NP HER): MEM23573

Associated Events

  • ENA3149 - Field Survey, Archaeological Survey of the Holnicote Estate 2001
  • ENA10085 - Archaeological Intervention, Geophysical Survey - Land West of Venn Plantation, Selworthy (Ref: 211007)
  • ENA10084 - Heritage Assessment, River Aller Floodplain Reconnection, Heritage Impact Assessment

Associated Finds

None Recorded

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