Author: Benjamin Roberts, Associate Professor in Later European Prehistory, Durham University

Bronze-age Britain traded tin with the Mediterranean, shows new study – settling a two-century debate

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Bronze age tin ingot from Salcombe, England. Benjamin Roberts / Alan Williams Tin was the critical mineral of the ancient world. It was essential to alloy with copper to make bronze, which for many centuries was the preferred metal for tools and weapons. Yet sources of tin are very scarce – and were especially so […]

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