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MuseumsSite Name: Royal Cornwall Museum
Country: England County: Cornwall Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Truro
Map Ref: SW824448  Landranger Map Number: 204
Latitude: 50.262996N  Longitude: 5.054472W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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-1Completely destroyed
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 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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Catrinm visited on 11th Apr 2026 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Lots of interest in the museum including the original cup marked stone from the Tregiffian burial chamber at the merry maidens.- and a new Cornish Folklore exhibition . £10 for annual entry.

Catrinm visited on 8th Sep 2021 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Worth a visit - under threat of closure?

lucasn visited - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 3 Access: 5

LiveAndrew AngieLake Andy B have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4.33 Ambience: 3.33 Access: 4.67

Royal Cornwall Museum
Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by Andy B : Gold lunalae in the 'Gathering Light' Bronze Age gold exhibition running until the 5th November at the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Important collections from all periods from Stone Age Cornwall to Contemporary Art. Metalwork, prehistoric gold, pottery, stone and flint tools. Also an extensive mineral collection rooted in Cornwall's mining heritage.

Address: River Street, TR1 2SJ
Phone: 01872 272205
Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday 10am – 5pm. Closed Sundays & Bank Holidays
Admission: Charge
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Note: Gold lunalae in the 'Gathering Light' Bronze Age gold exhibition running until the 5th November at the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro.
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Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by AngieLake : The St Mawes Tin Ingot. "Arguably the most famous object ever found in Cornwall is this ingot of pure tin recovered in 1812 by bargemen ..... in Carrick Roads between St Mawes and St Just-in-Roseland. ... Dates attributed to it have ranged from the prehistoric to the mediaeval." (Vote or comment on this photo)

Royal Cornwall Museum
Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by Catrinm : Original cup marked stone from Sicilian burial chamber near the Merry Maidens (Vote or comment on this photo)

Royal Cornwall Museum
Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by Andy B : 'Celtic' heads from St Piran’s Oratory including the rather wonderful cat-like one (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by Andy B : 'Celtic' heads from St Piran’s Oratory (Vote or comment on this photo)

Royal Cornwall Museum
Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by Andy B : Lots and lots of pots and urns (Vote or comment on this photo)

Royal Cornwall Museum
Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by Andy B : Bronze Axe display

Royal Cornwall Museum
Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by Andy B : The Towednack Hoard (left) on loan from the British Museum

Royal Cornwall Museum
Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by Andy B : Swords and axes from the 'Gathering Light' Bronze Age gold exhibition running until the 5th November at the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro.

Royal Cornwall Museum
Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by Andy B : Artefacts including bronze axe mould from the 'Gathering Light' Bronze Age gold exhibition running until the 5th November at the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro.

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Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by Andy B : Exquisite detailing on this 4000yo gold collar/lunula in the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro. Zigzag and triangle designs show clear connections with Ireland and France. Forensic examination of the toolmarks tell they were crafted by the same artist.

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Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by AngieLake : The Royal Cornwall Museum, photographed in May 2015.

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Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by AngieLake : Padstow Obby Oss ('hobby horse' for those unfamiliar with shortened form) Childrens' mask on display at Royal Cornwall Museum. The May Day 'Obby 'Oss processions and dances at Padstow in Cornwall are one of the longest-surviving folklore celebrations welcoming the coming of summer in Britain today. There are two adult Oss/es?, the 'blue ribbon' and 'red ribbon', with their own meeting places, an... (2 comments)

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Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by AngieLake : The Carnanton Tin Ingot [Roman]. "... found in the valley a short distance up-stream of St Mawgan-in-Pydar where tin streamers in the early 19th century recovered from their workings several prehistoric objects dating back to the Bronze Age."

Royal Cornwall Museum
Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by AngieLake : A beautiful chunk of 'Marmolite Serpentine' from Goonhilly. There is such a lot of Serpentine in the Lizard area of Cornwall and it comes in several different colours. (See any gift shop!) I wonder if the ancient people who erected Dry Tree menhir were aware of serpentine similar to this lovely specimen?

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Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by AngieLake : Capped Quartz. One of the most intriguing stones I've seen, with its neatly fitting cap. "...the layers pull apart because they are separated by a coating of iron oxide. The best British examples were from this mine." [Virtuous Lady mine, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, about 3 miles from the Cornwall border.]

Royal Cornwall Museum
Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by AngieLake : Foreground - Red Jasper from the Ding Dong mine, Madron. (This is the engine house visible from Men an Tol and neighbouring sites.) I wondered if the ancient builders of those circles and tombs might have possessed this red rock and, with its similarity to 'blood red', used it in their ceremonies, or treasured/traded it as something 'special'.

Royal Cornwall Museum
Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by AngieLake : Slipper Ore. This must have amazed and mystified the ancient people, looking, as they do, so much like footwear. (This sample was the size of a normal adult slipper.) "....the most celebrated specimens from this mine [Virtuous Lady Mine, Buckland Monachorum] are epimorphs of chalybite which grew around thin blade-like crystals of selenite or baryte which has weathered away." "The name... de...

Royal Cornwall Museum
Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by AngieLake : A tin crushing stone. "Large slabs of granite and greenstone pitted with hollows are found in the mining districts. These are anvils on which lumps of tin stone were crushed by hand-held stones or mullers. Many such slabs are mediaeval, but some could be much older. Where this granite example came from is not known, but like many others it was used on the front and the back. A fine large gra... (1 comment)

Royal Cornwall Museum
Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by AngieLake : This was a model of Chysauster late Iron Age/ Romano-British village at Newmill between St Ives and Penzance, I think.

Royal Cornwall Museum
Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by AngieLake : The 'cats' head, left, was the original one taken from St Pirans Oratory, Perranzabuloe. Three other heads on display are replicas. (1 comment)

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Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by AngieLake : St Pirans Oratory, Perranzabuloe, now buried under the sand and marked with a plaque and stone. (See site page for St Pirans Cross).

Royal Cornwall Museum
Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by AngieLake : The St Mawes Tin Ingot info board.

Royal Cornwall Museum
Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by AngieLake : "The Rialton Stone, an inscribed memorial stone from Rialton Barton, St Columb Minor, which probably marked a Christian burial at or near Rialton. The top of the stone with the name of the person buried is missing. The early 6th-century Latin inscription reads: BONEMIMORI (missing name) (F)ILLI TRIBUNI which can be translated as: "In loving memory of (name), of a son of Tribunus". The vertica...

Royal Cornwall Museum
Royal Cornwall Museum submitted by AngieLake : Display panel with details of the Rialton Stone (from Rialton Baron, St Columb Minor), and also photos of South Hill Memorial Stone (in a churchyard near Launceston) bottom left, and the Drustanus stone or Menabilly Memorial Stone bottom right. "Drustanus is the oldest recorded instance of the name we know as 'Tristan' which gives us another reason to argue that the Tristan and Isult story orig...

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Talk:Conserving Cornwall's Past - Protecting and Managing Monuments,21st July by coldrum on Saturday, 04 July 2009
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Talk:Conserving Cornwall's Past - Protecting and Managing Monuments,21st July

Lunchtime Archaeology Lectures: Conserving Cornwall's Past - Protecting and Managing Monuments

Tue 21 July 13.00-14.00

Description: The Royal Cornwall Museum is hosting two fascinating lectures by Senior Archaeologists at Cornwall's Historic Environment Service. On July 21st Ann Preston-Jones will explore the issues around protecting and managing Cornwall's extensive network of monuments. On July 28th Jacky Nowakowski will look at Cornwall's surfing capital Newquay and it's less well known prehistoric past. Both talks are free but places are limited to 20 so booking is advised.

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