THE COBBLED CAUSEWAY FROM MARAZION TO
ST MICHAELS MOUNT

 

This half mile long granite causeway is only useable at low tide, when it allows people and cars to get over to St Michael’s Mount. But 3,000 years ago, no causeway was needed.
St Michael’s Mount was not surrounded by the sea but by trees, and the ancient Cornish name for the Mount is Karrek Looz en Kooz meaning ‘the grey rock in the wood’. It was during the Bronze Age that a tsunami changed the sea level and the wood flooded. Today, at a low tide in Mount’s Bay, you can still see tips of petrified tree stumps poking out of the sands.