More information : Field walking along the route of the new Bodmin bypass at Treffry produced 181 flints from a 40m by 30m area (sited from the plan at SX 07686381) This area was sectioned during the road construction and three ditches were revealed, possibly land boundaries connected with the Lanhydrock estates. Ditch 1, 0.65m deep and 2.4m wide, was traced by magnetometer running 72m N-S. It contained two small Medieval sherds in its loose, fibrous brown soil fill. Ditch 2 was 0.5m lower down the slope and cut by ditch 1. Ditch 3, 0.6m deep, lay 0.8m lower down the hill parallel to ditch 1. No finds were made in the fill of ditches 2 and 3. Pottery from the surface in this area ranged from Medieval to late 19th century although one small Romano-British sherd was found. Ten flints were found in the depth of soil above the ditches and the total, with those from the surface, include a plano convex knife, scrapers, blades, a probable borer and a piece of pressure flaked arrowhead. This collection of flints concentrated in the top layers suggests temporary occupation over a long period, possibly a camping site. On the slope below the excavation a possible Iron Age or Romano-British spindle whorl of fine grey sandstone was found and in the ploughsoil above the excavation a Palaeolithic hand axe. The axe, of Broome Chert, had been re-worked and was probably Mousterian, see illustration. (1)
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