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The changes that occurred around the start of the Bronze Age in Cornwall were probably the result of a combination of factors. Cornwall's geographical location connected it to communities on the Atlantic Façade in Ireland, Wales, and Brittany, while at the same time linking it with Devon and Wessex in southern Britain.
Cornwall may have been the primary source of the gold used in the British and Irish Early Bronze Age. Gold from Cornwall may have been used to make many of the lunulae found in Ireland and along the Atlantic Façade. Gold from the Carnon river and tin from Redruth are the likely source for these metals used in the Nebra sky disc. [278] [196] [198]
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.
Cornwall, along with the neighbouring county of Devon, maintained Stannary institutions that granted some local control over its most important product, tin, but by the time of Henry VIII most vestiges of Cornish autonomy had been removed as England became an increasingly centralised state under the Tudor dynasty.
Stone circles in Cornwall (15 P) Pages in category "Bronze Age sites in Cornwall" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Sancreed Beacon is a Bronze Age archaeological site near the village of Sancreed in the Penwith peninsula of Cornwall maintained by the Cornwall Heritage Trust.On top of the hill are several stone cists and Bronze Age archaeological remains comprising burial mounds and the remains of a Bronze Age hut on the Western slope.
A medieval seal tool with a possible romantic past is among archaeological items declared as treasure by Cornwall's coroner. ... Bronze Age copper ingot fragments and Bronze Age alloy palstaves, a ...
There are three Bronze Age ring cairns within the outer ramparts according to a Cornwall Archaeological Unit Survey. [2] Most of the original stonework was robbed for building purposes during the nineteenth century.