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Multi-periodSite Name: Rockfield Road site Alternative Name: Parc Glyndwr site
Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 2.808 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Monmouthshire Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Monmouth
Map Ref: SO4963513072
Latitude: 51.814000N  Longitude: 2.732W
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Ancient Settlement in Monmouthshire.
In 2012 a dig conducted by the Monmouth Archaeological Society found remains described as the foundations of a massive long house. More recently, it was announced that this was evidence of Bronze Age boatbuilding, associated with what would have been a large prehistoric lake.

Meter wide trenches or channels were found over a mound of burned earth which has been carbon dated to the Bronze Age. Other finds around the area date back to the Stone Age and through to Roman times.
The site has been discovered in association with the development of the Parc Glyndwr housing estate, located on the old Croft-Y-Bwla country house and farm. The location given is approximate for the site.

Note: Bronze Age 'boat building' discovery in Monmouth.
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Bronze Age 'boat building' discovery in Monmouth by bat400 on Sunday, 20 October 2013
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Excavations show 100ft-long (30m) channels in the clay along which experts think vessels were dragged into a long-gone prehistoric lake.

Monmouth Archaeological Society started to unearth new findings when work started on Parc Glyndwr housing estate two years ago.

The research is being published in a book called The Lost Lake.
Author and archaeologist Stephen Clarke, 71, said: "I started digging here with the society 50 years ago - I wish I had another 50 years."
He said finds had helped the group to better understand the ancient history of Monmouth long before Roman times.

The town is served by three rivers but the group said it had evidence to suggest it was actually built on what was a huge prehistoric lake which became a home to hunter gatherers.

Over millennia it drained away and finds including charcoal from fires, flint shards and pottery from the Stone Age, Iron Age and Roman times have been found by the town's professional and amateur archaeologists.
Reconstruction of a boat by Peter Bere Reconstruction of a boat which may have made the marks in the ground

They have been excavated in sites around the town and in different layers of clay, sand, gravel and peat as the earth-bed composition changed from lake, lagoon, marsh and dry land, according to Mr Clarke.

Among the discoveries are a pair of "dead-straight" metre-wide channels in the clay shaped like the bottom of wooden canoes - along with a third smaller groove.
Mr Clarke said it supported the theory of a vessel having a support arm, adding he was seeking the opinion of marine archaeologists.
These channels were found over a mound of burned earth which has been carbon dated to the Bronze Age although other finds around the area date back to the Stone Age.

"I have seen 14-tonne machinery sliding in the clay so it would have been easy to push a boat," said Mr Clarke.

He believes the finds suggest a settlement and boat building industry although no boat timbers have been found.
"There is a lot to explain," said Mr Clarke, adding that the area "must have been alive with activity for thousands of years".
"It is so new [the findings] that most people in the country do not know about it," he said.

For more, see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news.
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Monmouth site is Bronze Age - archaeologist in row with minister by bat400 on Sunday, 20 October 2013
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A MAN who is leading a dig at a site in Monmouth says he's found evidence to dispute claims by a minister who claimed remains there were not Bronze Age.

Steve Clarke of Monmouth Archaeology says latest scientific results from the Parc Glyndwr site shows the area was teeming with prehistoric activity, especially during the bronze ages.
Mr Clarke claims the development refutes comments by heritage minister Huw Lewis that what had been found at the Rockfield Road site was from a later period.
The archaeologist said the claims had been damaging to his reputation. He has said the site, which was thought could have been a longhouse, was one of the most important he had seen in 30 years.

Mr Clarke said a charcoal sample from one of the slots thought to be a setting for a tree laid across a Bronze Age burnt mound - a drift of pebbles burned to boil water - had been found to date back to 1,750BC.
Early bronze age pottery from the site has produced a date of 1,680BC, while a hearth on the site produced a date of 2,795BC, from the new stone age.

The group has used radiocarbon technology to find the dates, which were produced by the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre.
Mr Clarke said there was now evidence that the foundations of the huge structure discovered by the team are also Bronze Age.
The finds showed the information given to the heritage minister by civil servants was "manifestly erroneous".

Nick Ramsay, AM for Monmouth, said the dating results were very exciting: "I hope that Cadw reappraise their opinion and at least consider that the Monmouth Archaeology interpretation may be right."

A CADW spokeswoman said different interpretations of evidence are not uncommon in archaeology.

"It is unfortunate that Mr Clarke has interpreted this as criticism as this has never been the minister's or Cadw's intention," she said.
It was made clear, the spokeswoman said, that further evidence was needed before a firm conclusion could be made, and Cadw made an offer to help obtain this information.
"We are eager to view the new evidence that Monmouth Archaeology has revealed as it has not yet been shared with the minister or Cadw," the spokeswoman added.

Thanks to coldrum for the link. For more, see http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk.
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Doubts raised over Monmouth ‘Bronze-age’ house by bat400 on Sunday, 20 October 2013
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DOUBTS have been raised over an excavation in Monmouth that was said to have possibly unearthed a bronze-age longhouse. Welsh heritage minister Huw Lewis said remains at the Rockfield Road site are now thought to be from a later period, and are unlikely to represent the foundations of a house.

But his comments in a letter to Monmouth AM Nick Ramsay have sparked anger from Steve Clarke of Monmouth Archaeology, which has spearheaded work at the site.

Mr Lewis said: "The three, parallel clay-filled trenches are cut from a higher, and therefore more recent level, than the Bronze Age surface in which they were first recognised. This means that they are later than that period."
No finds are associated with the fill of the trenches, and the absence of any finds or food waste makes it unlikely they represent the foundations of a house, Mr Lewis wrote.

"The actual date and function of this site remains a mystery, which may not be solved within the confines of the current excavation," he said.

He added that Cadw, in the absence of any certainty about the date or function of features on the site, couldn't consider the site for scheduling as an ancient monument.

Mr Ramsay said he's asked the minister to intervene to protect the site until it is known what is there: "It will be tragic if something of possibly unique importance was lost before we really knew what it was."

THE man who has spearheaded work at the dig Steve Clarke of Monmouth Archaeology, said the site is Bronze Age and a burnt mound from the era had been found.

Mr Clarke said: "I'm very concerned that an officer from Cadw should go on a site for five minutes and decide that our reading of everything is wrong. "I think it’s silly and its damaging to our professional reputation. This is one of the most important sites I've seen in 30 years."

A Cadw spokesperson said: "Differences in interpretation as investigations continue are not unusual amongst archaeologists and it is no reflection on Mr Clarke's professional expertise or integrity that his interpretation differs from other archaeologists who have seen the site." She added that Cadw was satisfied Monmouthshire council and the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust can continue to ensure the condition of planning that required the archaeological work is properly discharged.

For more, see http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk
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Re: Rockfield Road site by bat400 on Sunday, 20 October 2013
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Also see this listing from earlier this year in the Stones Forum: Building older than the Pyramids found in Wales.
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Discovery in Monmouth could be 'Stone Age house' by bat400 on Sunday, 20 October 2013
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THE foundations of a massive building – which could be even older than the Pyramids – were discovered during a dig on the banks of a long-lost lake in Monmouth.

Archaeologists from Monmouth Archaeology, a professional wing of the Monmouth Archaeological Society have been working on the Parc Glyndwr development site, off Rockfield Road for about a year, but last week made a significant find. Remnants of a structure were found, which archaeologists and historians believe could be unique to Britain, dating back to at least the Bronze Age, although it could be even older than Egypt’s ancient Pyramids.

Experts suggest the structure’s size, and it having been made from entire trees, means the building could be a “long house” – with the possibility of dating as far back as the New Stone Age (the Neolithic Age) and could predate the Pyramids from 3,000- 2,000 BC.

The building was discovered at the edge of an ancient lake, which dried up thousands of years ago.

Monmouth archaeologist Steve Clarke who has been working on the site said: “The structure certainly is huge.

The foundation of big wooden timbers set in the ground is a technique, which has been used for thousands of years. “The timbers are up to one metre wide. It is a long and wide, massive structure.
“There has been a great deal of excitement because it is so big. It appears to be the biggest in the country and we have been talking to archaeologists on the continent to see if they know of anything like it elsewhere.

“I have been digging for 55 years, but doing it professionally for the last 20 years.

“Monmouth has had a few exciting finds and this is perhaps one of the most important, but it’s certainly also one of the most mysterious.”

The developers have now rearranged work to allow for a full archaeological exploration of the remains, which were found during the digging of an attenuation pond. Managing director Steve Williams said the discovery was very exciting and his company was pleased to be able to support the archaeologists in their work to preserve the remains.

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