The Bronze Age was a boom period for Penwith because tin and copper, the two main alloys for making bronze, had been discovered there. Most of the stones of this region date back to the Neolithic period (4000-2000 BC) but some are from the Bronze Age that began in Cornwall about 2200 BC.
From them we learn that these Neolithic (or New Stone Age) people revered nature and worshiped a variety of gods and goddesses who primarily represented the elements (earth, sky, water) and the dynamics of fertility. The ancient people who carted and, in some cases, carved these stones were farmers, and the clues to this lifestyle are in the monuments. Importantly, many of the Cornwall sites are still undisturbed only the forces of nature have changed them over the centuries. I can do this alone or with a small group, staying as long as I like without being hounded by hordes crowding in for one more picture. And it is possible to walk up to the stones and touch them, making a tangible, personal connectionĭestination: England with the people who erected them. They are not roped off, as is Stonehenge. While no single monument in Cornwall is of the scale or magnitude of Stonehenge or Avebury, England-along with the Egyptian Pyramids, the most famous stone monuments in the world-they offer important advantages.
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