Date assertion for DATE-region_bi_wales-PREFERRED

Evidence and sources

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  Boom and bust in Bronze Age Britain: major copper production from the Great Orme mine and European trade, c. 1600–1400 BC — R. Alan Williams, Cécile Le Carlier de Veslud (2019)

  Integrates mine chronology, ore characterisation, metal analyses and production estimates to argue for a major Great Orme production peak and wide circulation.

  
  Locator: Abstract; The Great Orme copper mine; Discussion; Conclusions; Figures 2 and 9
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  Excavations and Metal-working at Llwyn Bryn-dinas Hillfort, Llangedwyn, Clwyd — C. R. Musson, W. J. Britnell, J. P. Northover, C. J. Salter, P. Q. Dresser, J. Fitt (1992)

  Dates the earliest fortification to the late ninth and eighth centuries BCE and separates it from much later metalworking.

  
  Locator: Abstract; pp. 265–283; fortification chronology
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  Sully and Lavernock Late Bronze Age hoard — Amgueddfa Cymru, Museum Wales

  Curatorial account of a major south Welsh Late Bronze Age metalwork hoard including weapons and tools.

  
  Locator: Object list, dating and interpretive discussion