Key points:
Meeting location: Porthmellin Quarry Car Park (bring coins)
Time: 10am – 3-4pm (bring packed lunch)
Route: steep hills, uneven footpaths, exposed coastpath, dirt tracks and a little asphalt
Length: 4km with one steep hill

Considerations:
Weather (will postpone if gale force winds or torrential rain)
Length (a slightly shorter return route is possible if necessary as well as road connections for pickup)
Facilities: no bathrooms anywhere en route
Mobile reception: no mobile reception at meeting location.

Description: This walk will take in 4km of Mullion’s wild landscape archaeology; a true journey through time from the bronze age to 20th century. The Lizard peninsula, forming Britain’s most southerly point, was an important landmark for the Greeks who called it the “Δαμνόνιον τό καί Όκριον ἄκρον” (meaning the Dumnonian and rugged headland), which may have lent its naming that of Predannack itself. In medieval times, Mullion’s landscape was mainly unenclosed rough ground with isolated farmsteads; very different to the fertile farm lands of the Meneage. By the 18th century, the town was famous as Britain’s only source locality of soapstone: a rare type of clay used to make the finest soft paste porcelain. The most important copper mine on the Lizard operated sporadically hidden away in the moorland at Ghostcroft between 1740-1906. During its working lifetime it produced the largest specimens of native copper ever found in Europe, making it world famous amongst mineralogists and geologists.