Richard Bradley (University of Reading, UK)

It is perhaps surprising that three different places along the Atlantic coastline of Europe are referred to in their local languages as ‘Lands’ End’. One is in north-west Spain, another in Brittany, and the third is in Cornwall. This paper explores the paradox that, despite the local perceptions that these were the outermost borders of the inhabitable world, their inhabitants had such unusually extensive connections with other areas and played a vital part in a wider regional economy. That was as true in prehistory as it was during later periods.