entity · ENT-SOUTHWEST-BRITAIN-TIN
Southwest Britain tin sources
Tin ore sources in Cornwall and Devon now linked by multi-method analyses to Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Mediterranean shipwreck ingots.
Review and provenance
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Properties and assignments
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Long-distance metal network
Participation in the extraction, movement, exchange, or consumption of metals across very large distances.
Why does this record have this property?
The assignment demonstrates that the connected Bronze Age system extended to Atlantic Europe. It does not mean every eastern Mediterranean bronze depended on British tin.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides provenance evidence
From Land's End to the Levant: did Britain's tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean? — R. Alan Williams, Benjamin W. Roberts, and collaborators (2025)