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Summary

Pottery, flints, mammal and human bones were found - collected by William Pengelly. The excavations for the clay-deposits revealed the base of a barn beneath which was a well- constructed road surface. The human bones were found together with ox, horse, goat, dog and deer; also flint fragments and grey, wheel-made pottery.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Torbay HER: MTO60111

Monument Types: none recorded

Full description

Torbay HER record (SMR record). SDV361984.

The Torquay Terra Cotta Works was established in Hele by 1875; one of two established using a local red and reddish-brown, fine, micaceous consolidated sandy-clay or mudstone. [1]

During the commercial exploitation of the clay-deposits a sequence of pottery, flints and human bones were found; these were collected by William Pengelly (d.1894). Excavations for the clay-deposits found the base of a barn beneath which was a well constructed road surface 3m wide, 30cms thick. The human bones were found together with ox, horse, goat, dog and deer; also flint fragments and grey, wheel-made pottery. Now in Torquay Museum [2]

<1> Phillips, J., 1881, Transactions of the Devonshire Association, p.216 (Article in Serial). SDV362622.

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<2> Dowie, H.G., 1927-30, Transactions of the Torquay Natural History Society, p.243-44 (Article in Serial). SDV362612.

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Associated Monuments

Associated Finds

• FDV7064 - MAMMAL REMAINS (Unknown date)
• FDV7065 - VESSEL (Late Neolithic to XIX - 3000 BC to 1900 AD)

Associated Events

• EDV7878 - Chance Finds made: 1875-1894

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