Down the Bright Stream: The Prehistory of Woodcock Corner and the Tregurra Valley, Cornwall

Taylor, Sean R.

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“…The Truro Eastern District Centre (TEDC) site on the eastern side of Truro comprised numerous pit groups spanning the Neolithic and EBA, many of which had been deliberately infilled (Taylor, 2022). Two of these pits, securely dated to the EBA, contained cassiterite (Figure 3b and 3c).…”

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“…The numerous Middle Bronze Age artefacts recovered from tin streamworks in Cornwall provide evidence for prehistoric exploitation (Penhallurick, 1986: 173-224), and this has recently been confirmed by a date of 1620-1497 cal BC (3269 ± 27 BP, OxA-36336 at 93.9% confidence) obtained for an antler pick from the Carnon valley near Truro (Timberlake & Hartgroves, 2018). Furthermore, two EBA pits recently excavated in Cornwall contained several kilos of cassiterite pebbles, granules, and ore, demonstrating the collection of alluvial cassiterite for processing (see below Truro TEDC; Taylor, 2022).…”

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Beaker and Early Bronze Age Tin Exploitation in Cornwall: Cassiterite Processing Identified through Microwear and pXRF Analyses

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The appearance of Beaker pottery in Britain and Ireland during the twenty-fifth century bc marks a significant archaeological horizon, being synchronous with the first metal artefacts. The adoption of arsenical copper, mostly from Ireland, was followed by that of tin-bronze around 2200 bc. However, whilst the copper mine of Ross Island in Ireland is securely dated to the Early Bronze Age, and further such mines in the UK have been dated to the Early and Middle Bronze Age, the evidence for the exploitation of tin ores, the other key ingredient to make bronze, has remained circumstantial. This article contains the detailed analyses of seven stone artefacts from securely dated contexts, using a combination of surface pXRF and microwear analysis. The results provide strong evidence that the tools were used in cassiterite processing. The combined analysis of these artefacts documents in detail the exploitation of Cornish tin during this early phase of metal use in Britain and Ireland.

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Beaker and Early Bronze Age Tin Exploitation in Cornwall: Cassiterite Processing Identified through Microwear and pXRF Analyses

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“…bc and 2900–2630 cal. bc (Taylor 2019, 95). One side of this plaque is incised with a chequerboard design, while the opposite face is lightly incised with infilled lozenge and triangle designs (Jones & Díaz-Guardamino 2019, 60–61).…”

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Making a Mark: Process, Pattern and Change in the British and Irish Neolithic

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Díaz-Guardamino²

2021

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This paper presents key results of the Making a Mark project (2014–2016), which aimed to provide a contextual framework for the analysis of mark making on portable artefacts in the British and Irish Neolithic by comparing them with other mark-making practices, including rock art and passage tomb art. The project used digital imaging techniques, including Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), and improved radiocarbon chronologies, to develop a new understanding of the character of mark making in the British and Irish Neolithic. Rather than considering this tradition in representational terms, as expression of human ideas, we focus on two kinds of relational material practices, the processes of marking and the production of skeuomorphs, and their emergent properties. We draw on Karen Barad's concept of ‘intra-action’ and Gilles Deleuze's notion of differentiation to understand the evolution and development of mark-making traditions and how they relate to other kinds of social practices over the course of the Neolithic.

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Down the Bright Stream: The Prehistory of Woodcock Corner and the Tregurra Valley, Cornwall

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Beaker and Early Bronze Age Tin Exploitation in Cornwall: Cassiterite Processing Identified through Microwear and pXRF Analyses

Beaker and Early Bronze Age Tin Exploitation in Cornwall: Cassiterite Processing Identified through Microwear and pXRF Analyses

Making a Mark: Process, Pattern and Change in the British and Irish Neolithic

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