truro in the bronze age
These four copper alloy bronze age palstaves (axes) were found while the foundations were being dug for the beautiful old building of Old County Hall in 1910.These artefacts were given to the Royal Cornwall Museum in 1910 by Mr G Penrose, Mr E H Crispen and Mr Wingate.
They date to the Middle Bronze Age (1,400 to 1,200 BC) and have worn shield motifs between the flanges and they are part of a body of evidence which reveals that the hillsides around the estuary valley where the modern city centre is, have been settled since at least the Bronze Age. History tells us that when Bronze age settlers left, the countryside where the city now stands was abandoned until the middle ages. The Old County Hall was formerly the seat of Cornwall Council, then the records office, and it has now been sold to be developed as a hotel and spa.
They date to the Middle Bronze Age (1,400 to 1,200 BC) and have worn shield motifs between the flanges and they are part of a body of evidence which reveals that the hillsides around the estuary valley where the modern city centre is, have been settled since at least the Bronze Age. History tells us that when Bronze age settlers left, the countryside where the city now stands was abandoned until the middle ages. The Old County Hall was formerly the seat of Cornwall Council, then the records office, and it has now been sold to be developed as a hotel and spa.