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Upper Pengethley Farm,
Sellack
Herefordshire
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Upper Pengethley farm buildings in the 1960s |
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Upper Pengethley Farm was once the home farm of Pengethley
Manor. In 1805 the proprietor of Pengethley was T P Symons,
esq, an MP for Hereford. Symons was an agricultural innovator
who introduced the drill-plough and improved the means of
converting arable land to pasture.
The Pengethley
estate originally comprised four farms
- Little Pengethley, Upper
Pengethley, Dason Farm and Grove Farm. Pengethley manor house
is now a
hotel. Upper Pengethley farmhouse is quite a large house
and was originally built as a dower house.
Upper Pengethley
Farm has been in the hands of the Partridge family since the
1920s. |
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The cellar of the hall of the Tudor manor house |
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Pengethley
Manor and Upper Pengethley Farm on the Sellack tithe map.
Houses, as apart from outbuildings, farm buildings etc, are
marked red.
The farmhouse
is to the east (right) of the manor and forms one side of a
group of buildings around the farmyard. |
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Upper Pengethley
Farm -
Fieldwalking
On Tuesday 4th October the LOWV group
continued field-walking at Upper Pengethley Farm, Sellack,
looking for archaeological artefacts. Part of this field had
been walked over the previous Friday (30th September) when
quantities of Romano-British pottery had been found.
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On
this field-walking exercise most of the rest of this large
field was covered. RB pottery was found all over the field
walked, confirming the existence of a settlement, probably a
farmstead, in the area. This broadly coincided with cropmarks
previously recorded in the field. |
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The farmer, Mr
Julian Partridge, pointed out an area which contained large
quantities of slag, together with a concentration of RB
pottery.
There have
been very few Roman-British sites found in the project area
and finding a new site is a significant step forward.
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