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The Cornish Bronze Age is an era of the prehistory of Cornwall that spanned the period from c. 2400 BCE to c. 800 BCE. It was preceded by the Cornish Neolithic, and followed by the Cornish Iron Age.
In Cornwall there was a resurgence of monument construction and changes in ritual and burial customs in the Early Bronze Age, [184] [189] along with the emergence of new pottery styles such as Trevisker Ware, a distinctive regional pottery style that originated in Cornwall c. 2000 BCE and continued to be produced for almost a millennium. [190]
Rillaton Barrow (Cornish: Krug Reslegh) [1] is a Bronze Age round barrow in Cornwall, UK. The site is on the eastern flank of Bodmin Moor in the parish of Linkinhorne about four miles (6 km) north of Liskeard. [2] Rillaton Barrow was excavated in 1837 and found to contain a centrally-placed inhumation beneath the 25m wide barrow.
As a result, Cornwall was one of the most important mining areas in Europe until the early 20th century. It is thought that tin ore (cassiterite) was mined in Cornwall as early as the Bronze Age. [7] Over the years, many other metals (e.g. lead and zinc) have been mined in Cornwall. [8]
Cornwall and neighbouring Devon had large reserves of tin, which was mined extensively during the Bronze Age by people associated with the Beaker culture. Tin is necessary to make bronze from copper, and by about 1600 BCE the West Country was experiencing a trade boom driven by the export of tin across Europe.
However, the only Bronze Age object from Central Europe whose tin has been scientifically provenanced is the Nebra sky disk, and its tin (and gold, though not its copper), is shown by tin isotopes to have come from Cornwall. [20] In addition, a rare find of a pure tin ingot in Scandinavia was provenanced to Cornwall. [21]
Given that villages in early Bronze Age Britain had between 50 and 100 residents, experts believe this might have amounted to the eradication of nearly a whole community.
It is described in the Cornwall County Council Historic Environment Record as "an extraordinarily well preserved Bronze Age settlement comprising at least 44 round houses set within a very extensive field system covering approximately 21 hectares. The site is located on the extremely stony south-west facing slopes of Leskernick Hill.