Down the Bright Stream: the prehistory of Woodcock Corner and the Tregurra Valley, Cornwall

Review by Jacqueline A Nowakowski A late Neolithic decorated slate disc adorns the front cover of this substantial and well-illustrated publication. Down the Bright Stream presents full technical reports on excavations (2009-2015) in Tregurra Valley by Cornwall Archaeological Unit. Key discoveries include a Neolithic buried soil, an Early Bronze Age enclosure at Woodcock Corner, and caches of Peterborough ware in pits (a rarity for Cornwall). But the star find – one of national importance – is the disc, which sealed a pit containing flint tools and Grooved Ware. Extensive fieldwork revealed episodic activity in three broad phases: Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, mobile Neolithic and