BODMIN MOOR ARCHAEOLOGY
SCRUB CLEARANCE DAYS 2011 – 12

Cornwall Council’s Historic Environment service is teaming up with the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV) to undertake scrub clearance on sites threatened by bracken and gorse growth on Bodmin Moor. The main aim of the project is to clear the sites and improve access.  A second aim is to try to develop a group of volunteers to carry on with this much-needed work in the future, after the first, funded, year is over.

 

Dates

Friday 30th September Goonzion Down, St Neot: Bronze Age barrow and rectangular pound of uncertain date
            NGR                SX 174 677
            Task:               Clearance of bracken from barrow and gorse from Crowpound
            EH/HE lead:  Caroline Vulliamy, Ann Reynolds, AnnPreston-Jones

Friday 28th October     Higher Langdon, St Neot, prehistoric and medieval settlements and field systems
            NGR                SX 203 732
            Task:               Clearance of gorse from hut circles
            EH/HE lead:  Caroline Vulliamy

Friday 25th November Carburrow Tor, Warleggan
            NGR                SX 1524 7051
            Task:               Clearance of gorse from hut circles and field system
            EH/HE lead:  Caroline Vulliamy, Ann Reynolds, Ann Preston-Jones

 

The following have yet to be confirmed

Wednesday 21st December Helsbury Hillfort, near Camelford
NGR                SX 083 795
Task:               Clearance of gorse from ramparts of hillfort
EH/HE Lead  Ann Preston-Jones

Friday 27th January      TBA (possibly Carburrow, Higher Langdon or Smallacombe)

Friday 24th February    TBA

Weekend in March (10th/11th or 17th/18th)      Garrow Tor prehistoric and medieval settlements and field systems – clearance of scrub