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Mawgan Porth Dark Age Village

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37: 30: 318: 234:. The site was first discovered after the apparent after the discovery of the skeleton in 1934. The landowner. Mr P A Wailes, had wanted to build on the land and soundings to test the subsoil revealed the skeleton, stone walls, pottery and bone fragments. 250:
The cemetery contained several adult and child burials enclosed in slab graves. Pottery finds from the excavations form were distinctive forms, partly inspired by the bar-lug tradition of Scilly and Cornwall
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near Perranporth and a Settlement excavated at Gunwalloe paint the picture of a vibrant country with a rich and literate elite.
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in 1974. However, the Trewhiddle hoard is one of the finest collections of Early Medieval silverwork found in Britain.
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At one time, very little was known of the period known as the 'Dark Ages' in Cornwall. The Cornwall edition of
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A trial excavation was carried out in 1948, and this led to larger scale investigation, between 1950 and 1954
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is a small ancient settlement consisting of 3 courtyard house complexes and a cemetery on the North coast of
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A Dark Age Settlement at Mawgan Porth, Publisher: Routledge 1956, by Rupert Bruce-Mitford
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Supposed Iron Age Burial at Mawgan Porth (JRIC No 83, Vol XXIV, 1936), Hirst, FC, 1936,
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Recent Archaeological Excavations in Britain: Selected Excavations, 1939-1955
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and negatives of Charles Woolf's photographs are held by the
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dating from the 10th century. It was excavated in 1950-54 by
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Picture of a Bar lug cooking pot excavated at the site
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Mawgan Porth Dark Age Village is located in Cornwall
Mawgan Porth
grid reference
(SW851672
50°26′05″N 005°00′47″W / 50.43472°N 5.01306°W / 50.43472; -5.01306
Early Middle Ages
Dumnonia
Rupert Bruce-Mitford
Paul Ashbee
Ernest Greenfield
Cornwall
Rupert Bruce-Mitford
British Museum
Photographic Library of English Heritage
Victoria County History
Trewhiddle
Tintagel
St Pirans Oratory
British Museum collection
Cornwall portal
Alan Sorrell
ISBN
0718808088
"Revealing Mawgan Porth's ancient settlement"
"MAWGAN PORTH - Early Medieval settlement"
"Cornwall 410 – 1066"
"Second Inscribed Stone found at Tintagel"
"Duckpool Archaeological Excavation 2017, Morwenstow, Cornwall (OASIS ID: cornwall2-287530)"
Recent Archaeological Excavations in Britain: Selected Excavations, 1939-1955
ISBN

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