ABSTRACT
THE isolation of Cornwall by land from the rest of England in pre historic and later times is summed up in the typical Cornishman’s comment that he has never been to England. The contacts which Cornwall enjoyed by sea with the surrounding countries were, how ever, remarkable especially in the Bronze Age. She was able to offer copper, tin, and various types o f greenstone and other stones, mainly from the vicinity of Penzance and St. Ives, which were in considerable demand for the manufacture o f stone axes and other implements. Some o f the tin certainly went to Ireland, and objects received in exchange included a few Irish gold lunulae, one o f which is said to have been found with a skeleton in a barrow at Cargurra near St. Juliot. The greenstone and probably tin were traded most likely along the English Channel and up the Salisbury Avon into Wessex, where implements of that stone have been found, and a handled urn of Cornish type was found in a barrow at Winterslow just east of the Salisbury Avon above Salisbury.
