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ARCHAEOLOGY
Cornwall is the ideal place to discover our past.
Over 10,000 sites and features from the Late Mesolithic onwards still exist. Flint scatters, Neolithic chamber tombs,
Bronze Age and Iron Age villages and stone circles, barrows, menhirs and rows, fogous, industrial sites, and medieval
long-houses, Romano - British salt evaporation site etc can still be found. Further there are man made rock features
still awaiting discovery. The County Museum at Truro houses many of the finds from excavation. Steve has taken part in
Bronze and Iron Age digs and is the Cornwall Archaeological Society representative for our area. We have been responsible
for local projects that are used as background by archaeologists for reviewing sites as to their importance and I am
a published author. In 2008 we spent time up on Leskernick, Bodmin Moor. A lot of work has been done here by archaeologists on how to tell if stones have been moved in the past or not. Two Bronze Age villages are found here plus an earlier
quoit through which the rising sun could be seen at the right time of the year, stone circles and a stone row. And we have to pass through medieval and later tin stream works to get there!
Using our knowledge we provide a week
where we dip into the past visiting ancient sites all over Cornwall building up a picture of what life and ritual was
like in the past. We look at structures, how parts of a site relate to each other and the wider relationship of a site
in an area. There are many practical aspects to the week including exploring.
Prehistoric features previously unrecorded and flint and stone implements have been
discovered by members of our groups.
You need to be fairly active for this week. To visit some of the sites
we must walk over uneven, hilly and sometimes very muddy terrain, distances up to 5 miles.
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