Category: Publications
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Romano-British settlement at Boden, near Manaccan
Meneage Archaeology Group – The excavation of a Romano-British settlement at Boden, near Manaccan. Following the excavation of an Iron Age fogou and Bronze Age house MAG are currently focussing their attention on two areas of apparent Romano-British date, where finds suggest activity between circa AD50 – AD200. Chronology is tentative at this stage, pending…
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The Lizard Publications Reference Library
The Lizard is one of the most written about National Nature Reserves in the country. Its unique geology and flora have brought botanists, entomologists, ornithologists, and many other researchers and nature lovers, to walk its tracks and explore its heaths and coastlands. This website covers much information that has been borne of this interest in…
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Lizard’s Cross Population
Not only has coastal erosion been whittling away at The Lizard peninsula but remnants of past civilisations are disappearing along with fireside tales and forgotten soliloquies. It is the often frustrated task of archaeologists to rescue artefacts and ideas from the vanished past and weave them into a pastiche of what might have been.A lament…
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The Loyal Meneage Volunteer Cavalry
Archaeology, like modern art, may have boundaries. Largely undefined, they shift as necessary. The Second World War, ruinously present on the Lizard, falls within the remit of both. Anti tank walls and blockhouses slowly become lumps in an erosive sea. A chambered tomb1 and anchor blocks of long gone radar antennae seem determined to contest…
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Hoards of Prehistory, History & the Future
The invention of the Cornish shovel made it easier to shove things into the ground. It didn’t necessarily make it much easier to retrieve them as you had to remember the right place to dig. Underground deposits await finders as has been shown by the accidental discovery of a few hoards, right here, on The…