Landscapes of Stone

Between 2004 and 2011 Graham Hill and Dave Edwards plotted nearly eight thousand prehistoric artefacts from ploughed fields across the Clodgy Moor area of West Penwith. In 2011 a project was carried out by the Historic Environment Service Projects team, Cornwall Council, the Portable Antiquities Scheme and the Cornwall Archaeological Society to catalogue and digitize all the finds recorded from the fieldwalking.The project demonstrated that some places within the project area were persistent locales which were occupied throughout the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods. The results were particularly significant because they shed light on the context of the production of greenstone axes, widely exchanged around Britain and across the Irish Sea during the Neolithic, and suggest why, despite large numbers of artefacts, no greenstone ‘axe factory’ site has been found close to the potential sources of the greenstone before

Archaeology · Archean · Context (archaeology · Debitage · Geography · Greenstone belt · Irish · Mesolithic · Prehistory · Stone tool · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Geology · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

• Carved stone in Mesolithic Cornwall

  Chris Carey, A M Jones et al.•World Archaeology•2026

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• Maritime Havens in Earlier Prehistoric Britain

  Open Access•Richard Bradley, Alice Rogers et al.•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•2016

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• Stone Axe Studies III

  Vin Davis, Mark Edmonds•Stone Axe Studies III•2011

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• Flint and Stone in the Neolithic Period

  Alan Saville•Flint and Stone in the Neolithic…•2011

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• Regional Perspectives on Neolithic Pit Deposition

  Hugo Anderson-Whymark, Julian Thomas•Regional Perspectives on…•2011

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• The petrological identification of stone implements from South-Western England

  Open Access•E D Evens, I F Smith et al.•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1972

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• The Sanctuary, Overton Hill, Wiltshire

  Open Access•J Pollard•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1992

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• Stone Axe-head Manufacture

  Open Access•A David, G Williams et al.•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1995

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• First Report of the Sub-Committee of the South-Western Group of Museums and Art Galleries on the Petrological Identification of Stone Axes

  Open Access•Alexander Keiller, Stuart Piggott et al.•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1941

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• The Chalk Plaque Pit, Amesbury

  Open Access•Philip Harding•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1988

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• Inscribing Space

  Open Access•J Pollard•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1995

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• The Shaugh Moor Project

  Open Access•N D Balaam, K Smith et al.•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1982

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• Bosiliack and a Reconsideration of Entrance Graves

  Open Access•A M Jones, Charles Thomas et al.•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•2010

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• Striking the Balance

  Open Access•S MANDAL•Archaeometry•1997

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• The aesthetics of depositional practice

  J Pollard•World Archaeology•2001

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• Quarrying in a tribal society

  John Burton•World Archaeology•1984

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• Beaker age bracers in England

  Open Access•Ann Woodward, John Hunter et al.•Antiquity•2006

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• A stone axe-factory in Brittany

  Open Access•C-T Le Roux, Charles Tanguy Le Roux•Antiquity•1971

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