Amalveor

Amalveor
Amalveor is located in Cornwall
Amalveor
Amalveor
Location within Cornwall
OS grid referenceSW 482 375
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireCornwall
AmbulanceSouth Western
List of places
UK
England
Cornwall
50°10′59″N 5°31′41″W / 50.183°N 05.528°W / 50.183; -05.528

Amalveor (Cornish: Amal Veur, meaning "great Amal"; 'Amal' appears to be the name of a river)[1] is a hamlet in West Penwith, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom at grid reference SW 482 375. The hamlet is 3 miles (4.8 kilometres) south-west of St Ives.[2][3] It is in the civil parish of Towednack.

A pair of gold bracelets were discovered at Amalveor Farm (about one mile due west of the church) on 11 December 1931 and were declared to be treasure trove. The bracelets were dated as middle Bronze Age (about 1000BC) and are now in the British Museum.[4][5] To the west is Sperris Quoit.

References

  1. ^ Craig Weatherhill (2017). The Place-Names of the Land's End Peninsula. Penwith Press. p. 176. ISBN 9781999777500.
  2. ^ Ordnance Survey 1:25000 scale 'Explorer' map, sheet 102
  3. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End ISBN 978-0-319-23148-7
  4. ^ Smith, Reginald A. (1932). "Treasure-Trove from Towednack (Cornwall)". The British Museum Quarterly. 7 (2): 48–49. doi:10.2307/4421421. JSTOR 4421421.
  5. ^ http://www.meynmamvro.co.uk/arctcle2.htm Meyn Mamvro website. Retrieved March 2010


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