[1] The West Cornwall Field Club was founded by Lt Col F. C. Hirst and six of the volunteers who were excavating a site at Porthmeor, in the parish of Zennor from 1933 to 1935.
During the fifties many members lived in mid and east Cornwall and the field club was publishing increasingly more articles from those areas.
It was felt that the name no longer relevant to the scope of the field club and at the annual general meeting on 10 August 1961 it was unanimously approved to change the title to Cornwall Archaeological Society.
[3] The first President of the society was C. A. Ralegh Radford an archaeologist and historian from Devon who specialised in the Dark Ages.
One, considered to be outstanding was at Carn Brea led by Roger Mercer from 1970 to 1973, which established a new class of site — the Early Neolithic tor enclosure.