Building Survey, Watching Brief at Bee Bole Barn, Carthew Farm, Treverbyn, Cornwall

The site was visited on the 24th April 2025 by E. Wapshott, MCIfA and Dr. S. Walls, MCIfA. Information was recorded on proforma record sheets and located on the current floorplans. Photographs were taken, both of the exterior elevations and of internal details. A measured plan of the structure was also made onsite. The recording conformed to Level 2/3 of Historic England's recording standards, as required in the planning conditions. Subsequent archaeological monitoring and recording was undertaken by L. Cicu on 11th November 2025. The monitoring consisted of the excavation of Service trenching by a 3 Tonne tracked digger with a 600mm toothless bucket. Whilst all the spaces in Building 1 covered by this report, appear to have been connected to farming and agriculture it is not necessarily the same for the whole of the lower yard and some of the buildings to the north may well have been used for mining/processing or count houses or similar in the early days. It would appear the origins of the site may lie in the original purchase of the land and the first adapting or laying out of a landscape around Carthew House, now lost. Out-field barns and enclosures are common in new intakes, seen on higher downs in the 18th and 19th centuries, so this would not be unusual as an origin-story for this site. Monitoring and recording of the associated service trenching, highlighted minimal archaeology throughout, beyond previous service remains and made-ground deposits. The possible evidence of a wall footing below the topsoil, is in close proximity to an existing boundary, and the true extent and nature of this remains inconclusive, perhaps reflecting a slight re-alignment/rebuilding, or the remains of a small structure up against this boundary wall.