History of St. Dominick – an occasional series: #3 Pre-history – 1485 Map 1: Part 2 (Bronze-Age)
Age (2500 – 800 BC). Up on Viverdon Down are a number of Bronze-Age bowl-barrows (burial mounds) Note: Barrow-burial is on a continuum from late Neolithic and through the Bronze-Age, and it has been noted in ref (3) that these would have also been visible from Balstone down. See map below: Cornwall Council Strategic Historic Environment Service in their article on Bronze-Age monuments in Cornwall states “Some mounds are probably burials of important people. The largest barrows are in prominent locations on hilltops and ridges. The smaller barrows, which do not normally survive in lowland Cornwall, are inconspicuously sited amongst the fields and near the contemporary settlements.” and “ We can conclude that the many barrows found elsewhere in lowland Cornwall (eg. Cubert Common, Veryan Beacon) would have had round house settlements close by which are not now visible.” (1) Most of St. Dominick counts as ‘lowland Cornwall’. The earlier Bronze-age settlements were up on ...