Digital Archive from Archaeological Investigations and Recording Work at Brunswick Wharf, Bideford, May 2021 to March 2022

This collection comprises site records and images from a programme of works which included historic building recording, monitoring and recording of trial pits, and a trial trench evaluation. These works were undertaken by AC Archaeology Ltd between May 2021 and March 2022. The recorded buildings included a warehouse and a cottage which have origins that are contemporary with the shipbuilding yard and date to the 19th century. The survey identified a number of mid or later 20th-century alterations to the buildings including the rebuilding of the store. The evaluation produced results that indicated there was some level of survival across the site, although demolition and clearing of structures, at various times in the late 19th and 20th centuries, had been extensive. The watching brief and evaluation identified the presence of reclamation and made ground deposits dating from the 17th- or 18th-century onwards.