Iron Age and Romano-British occupation exposed beside Newquay’s golf links by pipeline work in 1998.
Pipeline archaeology beside Atlantic Road in 1998 revealed stone structures, a hearth, shell waste and cultivated ground from a Romano-British settlement, above an earlier Iron Age phase. Only a strip was investigated. Wider traces on the links may relate to it, but the connection is not established.
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