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| THE STORY OF CORNWALL Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 http://www.archive.org/details/...DANIELL THE STORY OF CORNWALL rOR MARK PRESS • TRURO printed in Cornwall by H. E. Warne Limited...TOR MARK PRESS • TRURO CONTENTS EARLY MAN IN CORNWALL*. THE STONE AND BRONZE AGES THE IRON AGE AND THE...INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION .. 32 THE MODERN FACE OF CORNWALL .. 38 ,. 1 ILLUSTRATIONS Lanyon Quoit, near...Stone of Writing, on the granite uplands of the Land's End peninsula 12 old photograph twelfth century |
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| GEOGRAPHIES 'CO [LO loo io co CORNWALL PHYSICAL MAP OF CORNWALL CAMBRIDGE COUNTY GEOGRAPHIES...General Editor : F. H. H. GUILLEMARD, M.A., M.D. CORNWALL CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Hontron: FETTER LANE...CO., LTD. x*B Cambridge County Geographies CORNWALL S. BARING-GOULD With Maps, Diagrams, and Illustrations.... From Morwenstow to -31 the Coast. From Land's End to Rame Head 10. The Coast Gains and Losses... Industries and Manufactures 6. .19 .26 Land's End 1 3 ... .... .... . i . 51 . Main Cultivations |
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| undoubtedly invest in a proper geological hammer, with one end like a fine pick and the other square-headed. The...\lirtually no equipment, the pebble hunter in Cornwall can embark on a pastime that is healthy and relaxing...Europe. 4 - Ii A LI T TLE OF GEOLOGY I N Cornwall, as elsewhere, there are three main types of rocks...and is found for example around Lamorna in the Land's End. When polished it makes a fine ornamental building...sedimentary rocks, and these are the most common type in Cornwall. As the name implies, these were laid down as |
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| district featured on Maton 's geological map of Cornwall in 1797 and accounts, both of the minerals and...topographically the district is dominated by the Land's End Granite. This and the Tregonning-Godolphin Granite...deposits. ., • Plate 1 Pordenack Point, south of Land's End. Castellated cliffs formed from megacrystic coarse-grained...Memoir for 1: 50 000 geological sheets 351 and 358 (England and Wales) LONDON: HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE...British Geological Survey, Sheets 351 and 358 (England and Wales). Authors A J J Goode, BSc and R T Taylor |
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| an insight into the peoples who have occupied Cornwall over the last eight thousand years. The story...people, who first brought the use of metal to Cornwall, traded with Ireland and the Middle East. They...who otherwise made little impression on remote Cornwall. The departure of the Romans from Britain heralded...evangelising men and women who brought Christianity to Cornwall a hundred-and-fifty years before St. Augustine...inclusion of Cornwall as part of England for the first time in history. The author came into Cornwall nearly |
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| - .. CORNWALL COUNTY L IBRARY 11 I3 111 111 II 11 11 I 8009 02579 1911 -, , l./tPv ~ 6 JUN 2003...BIRD, E. C. F. The coasts of Cornwall c/551 .457094237 1899526013 CORNWALL COUNTY COUNCIL LIBRARY SERVICES...SERVICES The Coasts of Cornwall Scenery and Geology with an Excursion Guide Eric Bird 1 First Published...Alexander Associates 1998 4 South Screer, Fowey, Cornwall PL23 lAR e-mail: a1ex@nder.com www.nder.com ©... 6 Chapter One - Introduction The coasts of Cornwall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| MEMOIRS· ·OF ·-1}RE-·GEOLOGICAI/ SURVEY.. -: ,. ENGLAND AND WALES. .. - -EXPLANATION Q_F SHEETS 361...THE GE.O LOG y·� ., ., ' OF TIIE •, \ - END • • • , ,.,r.' ' ,. ' \ .. .. -�-. • ...SECTIONS, AND MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGIOA SURMEY. OF ENGLAND AND WALES, AND MU,SEUM E>F PRACTICAL GEOLOGY• of...6d. A Compl1 �) ; 4 (I. of l\ta11); 5 {Lake ENGLAND .i Di��rct) Dewon;}; ' ....' .. -: Torquay NEW...BASJNGSTOI(.E (Colour printed) •• $51 & 858. LAND'S END DlSTRIOT •• 1 6 •• 298. SALIS�URY (OdlO'ur prin |
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| Ussher—Pleistocene Geology of Cornwall. 307 V.—PLEISTOCENE GEOLOGY OP CORNWALL.1 By "W. A. E. USSHEB, F...pebble gravel and coarse sand, with occasional flint and slate materials: coarse brown blown sand caps... 308 W. A. E. Ussher—Pleistocene Geology of Cornwall. from the destruction of a continuous band of...land shells. 7 a. Whitesand Bay, to the North of Sennen Cove, is bounded by sand dunes, capping the low...by higher ground. b. On the north side of Cape Cornwall rock platforms are visible at about high-water |
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| London, and reproduced by their kind permission. Cornwall Archaeological Society President C. A . RALEGH...Gwithian, The University, Edinburgh, Hayle, Cornwall or Dept. of Archaeology, 8 Directors, season...interested in the past history and material culture of Cornwall and the Isles of Stilly. The annual subscription...Designed by Ian Mackenzie-Kerr and printed in Cornwall by H. E. Warne Ltd., St. Austell Contents CORNISH...Editorial 2 The Neolithic in the Southwest of England 4 C . A . RALEGH RADFORD, M.A., F.B.A., F.S.A |
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| Rock at Bude э 3 5 б 3 9 Cliffs of the Land's End peninsula, from Pendeen Watch 3 9 Granite cliffs...cliffs at Porthgwarra, near the Land's End The headland of Pentire and The Rumps Shore reefs in sandstone...features, natural or manmade, which abound in Cornwall: the granite tors of the high moors; Delabole's...county; several bands of sedimentary rocks crossing Cornwall from cast to west, which are wrapped around the...or mountain chain, running east to west across Cornwall, this being flanked on the north by an even greater |
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| seem to throw an3-light on the Eocene geology of Cornwall, nor of any part of the area west of Dartmoor...unlike anything that I had expected to find in Cornwall, that I examined it closely, taking away samples...largely (about 70 per cent. by weight.) of Chalk-flint and Greensand-chert, only 30 per cent. being Palaeozoic...quantity of the fine shingle yielded : per cent. Chalk-flint ........................ 86'0 Greensand-chert ....that scattered Chalk-flints were not uncommon in Cornwall, I could not understand why so many had collected |
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| S.W. England. By J. E. Wright (not published) W. G. Manton and the geological map of S.W. England. By...Granites and structure : sonic comments on S.W. England. By W. R. Dearman … … … 25 Conodonts from the...North Devon. By C. M. Bristow … 29 The S.W. England granites and the concept of the “ternary” minimum...Power … … ... 43 Tin and lead in the Land's End aureole, Cornwall. By P. A. Floyd … … … … 45 Copper...metamorphic and metasomatic basic hornfelses, Land's End aureole. By P. A. Floyd … 49 Studies relating |
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| kaolinite formation in Gwavas quarry, Newlyn, Cornwall.” 75. *Mr. G. M. Power : “The spectrographic analysis...analysis of small quantities of tourmaline from S.W. England ; a preliminary report.” 76. *Dr. C. S. Exley :...: “Some aspects of the petrochemistry of the Land's End granites.” 79. *Dr. W. R. Dearman and Mr. M....Bude Sandstones from Bude to Widemouth, North Cornwall.” 87. *Dr. M. J. Ripley : “Structural studies...studies between Holywell Bay and Dinas Head, North Cornwall.” 88. *Mr. E. C. Freshney : “Low-angle faulting |
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| Publisher: Taylor & Francis Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered...Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Series 5...Plioeene Age at St. Erth, ] 5 miles east of the Land's End, Cornwall." By S. V. Wood, Esq., F.G.S. The deposit...has got together, partly from correspondents in Cornwall and partly from his own researches in clay consigned...of a strait that joined the sea on the north of Cornwall (St. Ires Bay) to that on the south of the county |
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| Transgression of the Cretaceous sea in South-West England. By J. M. Hancock. … 61 The Cretaceous structure...Preliminary report on the Wilsey Down Borehole, North Cornwall (Abstract). By E. C. Freshney. … 107 The geology...Dartmouth and Meadfoot Beds near Fowey, South Cornwall (Abstract). By P. H. Bridges. … … … … 109 Observations...sedimentological history of the Padstow area, North Cornwall (Abstract). By M. Tucker. … … 111 Facies interpretations...W. England (Abstract). By D. J. C. Laming. … … 111 Tergiversate folds from South-West England. By |
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| and flake implements, are almost all made from flint, the only abundant natural material in Britain which...to hand. There is no evidence that he mined his flint nor that it was brought from any distance beyond...are unknown in Scotland, north and north-west England, and most of Wales. Fig. 1 is adapted from Roe...source of flint in situ, and also the limit of Pleistocene tills and gravels which contain flint. The correlation...occurrence of artefacts and the availability of flint is most striking but nevertheless must be largely |
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| into the geology and geomorphology of south-west England Volume 6 Part 4 1987 Edited by G.M Power The...into the geology and geomorphology of southwest England and the surrounding marine areas; to hold Annual...Annual Conferences at various places in South West England where those engaged in this research can meet formally...SHEPHERD: Chronology of magmatism in south-west England: the minor intrusions. B. BOOTH and C.S. EXLEY:...EXLEY: Petrological features of the Land's End Granites. P.I. HILL and D.A.C. MANNING: Multiple intrusions |
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| of the principal mining region of the West of England. This is the district comprised in the recently...were formerly more widely represented in South Cornwall. Pxoc. GEOL. Assoc., VOL. XX, PART 6, 1908.J 33...exhibit arranged to illustrate the Geology of the Land's End district (maps 351 and 358), described by Mr...of contact-metamorphism, and that the west of Cornwall has long been known as a typical region for phenomena...of the Geological Survey. "The Geology of the Land's End District," by Clement Reid, F.R.S., and J, S |
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| include those of Chalk in the area north-west of Cornwall and of nepheline phonolite from Epson Shoal, 6...neglected study of submarine geology. A line from Land's End to Ouessant marks approximately the western limit...in the northern part of the Celtic Sea (between Cornwall and Ireland), the loose late Tertiary and Quaternary...in parts of the waters surrounding south-west England, and dredge samples from the area commonly contain... 50° 14'.4 5 49'.3 Bank, 8 miles N.W. of Cape Cornwall. 50° 19'.6 5°45'.2 The Bann Shoal. 50° 29'.4 |
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| Twelveheads Press PO Box 59, Chacewater Truro, Cornwall TR4 8Z}. especially true of its minerals, some...rocks lie at the bottom of a sequence, but in Cornwall this becomes far from simple where rocks have...(metamorphism) of existing rocks. The land wl ‘ch is now Cornwall has seen periods of uplift and sinking beneath...conditions changed too, for the land that is now Cornwall was once close to the Equator before the action...are older rocks on the Lizard peninsula, most of Cornwall consists of Devonian rocks, known locally as “killas’ |
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| rocks of Devon and Cornwall and the erratic material of the Eastern Counties of England. Before I submitted...No reference was made to the rocks of Devon and Cornwall. In 1920 Prof. S. H. Reynolds published a paper...]Y[enheniot, in East Cornwall. He also called attention to 'granite probably from Cornwall' at 600 feet O.D...(op. cir.) expressed his belief that Southern England had been submerged at least to 165 metres (540...floating ice transported rocks from Devon and Cornwall at that period, and that a Sicilian (100-metre) |
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| Publisher: Taylor & Francis Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered...Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Series 5...identical with our Oribata setosa. I n elm place--the Land's E n d - - t h e author detected " w h a t appears...deeper gravel, " k n o w n as ' ballast,' in which flint implements (? palmoliths) are more commonly found"...prehistoric Briton, with his "unpolished adze of flint" (pp. I4-17}, or " a British palmolithic riverside |
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| Pliocene Age at St. Erth, 15 miles east of the Land's 'End, Cornwall." By S. V. Wood, Esq., F.G.S. The deposit...has got together, partly from correspondents in Cornwall and partly from his own researches in clay consigned...of a strait that joined the sea on the north of Cornwall (St. Ives Bay) to that on the south of the county...; and which insulated the high ground of the Land's-End district from the rest of Britain. The elevation...Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall," is 98 feet above mean-tide mark in the Hayle |
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| Granite Dartmoor Granite Bodmin Moor Granite Land's End Granite Tregonning-Godolphin Granite Other Occurrences...Southwest England 10 Fig 5 Extent of kaolinisation in the granites of Southwest England 11 Fig 6...the United Kingdom and the deposits of Southwest England are world famous for their high quality. The United...range of other uses. The deposits of Southwest England were formed by the in situ alteration of the feldspar...quantities are produced on Bodmin Moor and near Land's End. The kaolinised granite-the clay matrix-consisting |
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| Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, for 1848 ; and a table of some of the principal...encumbered . The copious list of synonyms at the end of the volume will, however, render this work adapted...Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Reports of the Devonshire Association for the...LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND BEDFORDSHIRE BERKSHIRE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE . CAMBRIDGESHIRE CHESHIRE 31 CORNWALL . 32... 64 65 CONTENTS. X MINERAL LOCALITIES IN ENGLAND— (continued ). OXFORDSHIRE PAGB 65 . RUTLANDSHIRE |
