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Historic environment baseline and archaeological potential
Known heritage assets within the 500m Onshore Cable Route study area (see Figure 25.6.1) comprise:
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1 Registered Park and Garden (Grade II Bawdsey Manor landscape and gardens)
1 Scheduled Monument (19th century Martello Tower, also a Grade II listed building)
7 Grade II* and 34 Grade II listed buildings
565 non-designated heritage assets of which one is considered to be of potentially equivalent significance to a designated heritage asset (‘high’ importance). The non-designated heritage assets represent evidence for all periods of prehistoric and historic activity from Palaeolithic implements to a Cold War Radar Station
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Archaeological potential is recognised along the majority of the Onshore Cable Route (see Figure 25.6.2). Archaeological potential is derived from previously identified heritage assets, such as cropmarks identified on aerial photography, or individual findspots identified through metal-detector survey. However, archaeological potential is also based on certain topography, offering vantage landscape viewpoints, fertile and well drained soils, and outside of flood zones. The Onshore Cable Route is thus reproduced with topographical context in Figure 25.6.3 in order to highlight areas of high potential.
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Topographical context, desk-based assessment and field reconnaissance survey suggests areas of particular archaeological potential within the 500m onshore study area, as follows:
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Bawdsey: Known heritage assets in and around the landfall location of the Onshore Cable Route are predominantly, but not exclusively, related to military history; to the north of the landfall are extensive WWII defence features, and to the south are various features relating to a ColdWar radar site. The potential for further features, not previously identified through aerial photograph assessments, is anticipated to be low. However, the ‘Sandlings’ is an area of known earlier activity, evidenced by artefact recovery in the area of the landfall representing the Palaeolithic, Iron Age, and Roman periods. The potential for previously unrecorded archaeology from these periods within the area around Bawdsey is high
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