![]() ![]() ![]() None of the flints, so far recovered, can be positively dated to the Bronze Age (c. Any Neolithic or Mesolithic camps are likely to have been destroyed by the later extensive building operations, but it is reasonable to expect the mount to have supported either a seasonal or short-term camp for Mesolithic people. At this time the mount would likely have been an area of dry ground surrounded by a marshy forest. ![]() During the Mesolithic, Britain was still attached to mainland Europe via Doggerland, and archaeologist and prehistorian Caroline Malone noted that during the Late Mesolithic the British Isles were something of a "technological backwater" in European terms, still living as a hunter-gatherer society whilst most of southern Europe had already taken up agriculture and sedentary living. Other pieces of flint have been found, and at least two could be Mesolithic (circa 8000 to 3500 BC). The key discovery was of a leaf-shaped flint arrowhead, which was found within a shallow pit on the lower eastern slope, now part of the modern gardens. There is evidence of people living in the area during the Neolithic (from circa 4000 to 2500 BC years). Remains of trees have been seen at low tides following storms on the beach at Perranuthnoe. Its Cornish language name-literally, "the grey rock in a wood"-may represent a folk memory of a time before Mount's Bay was flooded, indicating a description of the mount set in woodland. Part of the island was designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1995 for its geology. ![]() St Michael's Mount is one of 43 unbridged tidal islands to which one can walk from mainland Britain. Historically, St Michael's Mount was a Cornish counterpart of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, France, which is also a tidal island, and has a similar conical shape, though Mont-Saint-Michel is much taller. It is managed by the National Trust, and the castle and chapel have been the home of the St Aubyn family since around 1650. The island is a civil parish and is linked to the town of Marazion by a causeway of granite setts, passable (as is the beach) between mid-tide and low water. St Michael's Mount ( Cornish: Karrek Loos yn Koos, meaning " hoar rock in woodland") is a tidal island in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. ![]()
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