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The paper examines the idea of 'regional distinctiveness' using a case study of monument forms identified with west Cornwall
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... The Penwith region is acknowledged to be of exceptional archaeological impor tance for the prehistoric period. There are dense concentrations of Mesolithic and Neolithic flint scatters together with Neolithic/Early Bronze Age monument com plexes containing sites which provide evidence both for regional distinctiveness as well as for seaborne contacts with communities around the Atlantic façade (Jones and Thomas 2010; Kirkham 2011). Its natural resources have ensured that it played an impor tant role throughout prehistory. ...
Between 2004 and 2011 Graham Hill and Dave Edwards plotted nearly eight thousand prehistoric artefacts from ploughed fields across the Clodgy Moor area of West Penwith. In 2011 a project was carried out by the Historic Environment Service Projects team, Cornwall Council, the Portable Antiquities Scheme and the Cornwall Archaeological Society to catalogue and digitize all the finds recorded from the fieldwalking.The project demonstrated that some places within the project area were persistent locales which were occupied throughout the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods. The results were particularly significant because they shed light on the context of the production of greenstone axes, widely exchanged around Britain and across the Irish Sea during the Neolithic, and suggest why, despite large numbers of artefacts, no greenstone ‘axe factory’ site has been found close to the potential sources of the greenstone before.
