Watching Brief at The Hyve, Treliske, Truro, Cornwall Archaeological Watching Brief

The archaeological work will be carried out in accordance with the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists Code, Regulations and Standards & Guidance for Archaeological Excavation1920, Archaeological Field Evaluation2122 and Archaeological Monitoring and Recording2324. Spoil will be examined for the recovery of artefacts, including the use of a metal detector. All excavation of exposed archaeological features shall be carried out by hand, stratigraphically, and fully recorded by context to CIfA guidelines. All features shall be recorded in plan and section at scales of 1:10, 1:20 or 1:50. All scale drawings shall be undertaken at a scale appropriate to the complexity of the deposit/feature and to allow accurate depiction and interpretation. An adequate photographic record of the excavation will be prepared. If archaeological features are exposed, then as a minimum: i) small discrete features will be fully excavated; ii) larger discrete features will be half-sectioned (50% excavated); iii) long linear features will be excavated to sample 20% of their length - with investigative excavations distributed along the exposed length of any such feature. Whether any further excavation is required will be confirmed with the HEP (Arch). Should the above excavation not yield sufficient information to allow the form and function of archaeological features/deposits to be determined, full excavation of such features/deposits may be required. No archaeological contexts were recovered in this project.