Copies of the finds can be seen in the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro.Įach find has be verified by a visit by a team of archaeologists and volunteers from the New Forest National Park Authority to make sure it really is what it looks like on the map – which isn’t always the case (one feature turned out to be an elaborate den constructed by children!) – but most turn out to be genuine archaeological finds. The items were dated as middle Bronze Age – about 1000BC, were declared to be treasure trove, and are now in the British Museum. The gold was very fine, and probably came from Ireland. One necklet consisted of a single twisted strand of gold, and the other consisted of three strands loosely twisted together. The collection of beautiful gold objects, known as the Towednack Hoard, included two twisted neck rings, four armrings and two lengths of unfinished gold rod. On the 11th December 1931, ancient gold jewellery was discovered at Amalveor Farm about one mile due west of Towednack church, concealed in an ancient stone hedge. The northern section is in moorland and consists of shallow lynchets with cross banks or earth and small stones.Ī sunken lane, known locally as Badger’s Lane is part of the ancient Tinner’s Way which curves around the southern edge of Amalveor Downs up onto Lady Downs from the road to Amalveor.

Amal is probably a river name and the word means ‘edge’ ‘boundary’ or ‘slope’ also found in the Cornish place-name Amalebra which itself means ‘lower Amal’ from the Cornish ‘Amal ebry’.Ī nearby hut circle and associated field system lays just west of Amalveor, the southern part has been almost destroyed by modern cultivation. The settlement of Amalveor is first recorded as “Ammalvoir” in 1337Īmalveor is a Cornish name derived from ‘Amal vuer’ translating as ‘great Amal’. Amalveor is a hamlet in the parish of Towednack, West Penwith, Cornwall.

The Tinners' Way by Craig Weatherhill