More information : (SW 47933759) Sited from sketch. In December 1931, a
labourer found a Late Bronze Age goldsmith's hoard on the farm
of Amalveor, Towednack at the position marked X on the plan, in
the boundary bank which lies within the piece of moor numbered
563 on the 25" OS Sheet Cornwall 68/2. It consisted of a large
torc, a triple torc, a pair of bracelets, an unfinished pair of
bracelets, a bent rod of lozenge section, and a coiled rod of
irregular section. (See AO/59/283/4 5 7).
(SW 47933759) Bronze Age Goldsmith's Hoard found AD 1931. (NAT)
Hawkes' siting is evidently derived from the finder of this hoard
and correct within a small margin. The bank from which the hoard
came is just discernible within a pasture field and clearly
represents a vestige of an ancient field system. Sited on OS 12500.
The hoard is now in the British Museum; Truro Museum possesses
electrotypes.
Gold hoard dated to about 900 BC (4) found in hedge on cultivation
terraces, with possible hut (see SW 43 NE 35) (5).
Taylor describes the hoard as probably being deposited "at the beginning of the traditional 'Late' Bronze Age or slightly earlier" (7)
According to Pearce the Towednack find "represents the beginning of the sequence of gold finds which stretch to the end of the late Bronze Age" in south western Britain. (8) |