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Later prehistoric settlement in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly reports on the excavation between 1996 and 2014 of five later prehistoric and Roman period settlements. All the sites were multi-phased, revealing similar and contrasting occupational patterns stretching from the Bronze Age into the Iron Age and beyond.
The expanse of time covered by Caradoc Peters in The Archaeology of Cornwall is almost unimaginable. His story of Cornwall begins more than half a million years ago and, astonishingly, he leaves us at the end of his text in the modern age. It is a magisterial sweep through complex interweaving narratives: somehow Caradoc draws out his themes to present us with a coherent and gripping story. In a discipline - archaeology - that can be regarded as a little dry and academic, the author has created a living picture of the changing social history of Cornwall, as depicted in the wealth of artefacts and structures that have been found and studied over the ages. Nick Johnson, County Archaeologist, refers in his introduction to the amount of documentation that has accompanied an accelerating programme of archaeological investigation in Cornwall ...
This volume presents the results of archaeological investigations on the Newquay Strategic Road and goes on to discuss the complexity of the archaeology, review the evidence for ‘special’ deposits and explore evidence for the deliberate closure of buildings especially in later prehistoric and Roman period Cornwall.