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A 2022 genetic study analysed the remains of individuals from sites in Iron Age Cornwall that included Harlyn Bay, Trethellan Farm, Tregear Vean, and Tregunnel, resulting in an average ancestry model of c. 13.5% Western Hunter-Gatherer, 36.4% Early European Farmer, and 50.1% Yamnaya-related ancestry.
The history of Cornwall goes back to the Paleolithic, but in this period Cornwall only had sporadic visits by groups of humans. Continuous occupation started around 10,000 years ago after the end of the last ice age .
Mining in Cornwall has existed from the early Bronze Age around 2150 BC and it is thought that Cornwall was visited by metal traders from the eastern Mediterranean. It has been suggested that the Cassiterides or "Tin Islands" as recorded by Herodotus in 445 BC may have referred to the Scilly Islands and Cornwall as when first discovered they were both thought to have been islands.
A 2022 X-ray fluorescence and microwear analysis study of Bronze Age stone tools from Sennen, Lelant, and Truro found that the tools had been used to process semi-hard minerals, and detected traces of cassiterite tin ore on six implements, providing what the authors describe as "the earliest secure evidence for tin exploitation in Britain". The ...
Granite was used as a building stone as early as the Bronze Age. Before the 17th century the granite was not quarried as it was far too difficult to cut the stone at that time. Builders used blocks lying about on the moors, known as moorstone, instead. By the later Middle Ages the masons were adept enough at dressing moorstone to use it in ...
The holed stone is roughly octagonal in outline. It is 1.3 metres wide and 1.1 metres high; the circular hole is 0.5 m in diameter. [1] The only other holed stone in Cornwall of this type is the Tolvan holed stone which can be seen in a garden near Helston. There is one other standing stone nearby, and six recumbent stones, some of which are ...
In the centre are the remains of a large circular stone building, of about fifty feet in diameter. [1] 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.
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