claim · claim_bi_salcombe_tin_origin_unresolved
The geological origin of every Salcombe tin ingot remains unresolved despite strong evidence that the assemblage participated in maritime metal exchange.
The geological origin of every Salcombe tin ingot remains unresolved despite strong evidence that the assemblage participated in maritime metal exchange.
Review and provenance
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Evidence and sources
Supporting sources
- supports · supports claim
Tin ingots from a probable Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Salcombe, Devon: Composition and microstructure — Quanyu Wang, Stanislav Strekopytov, Benjamin W. Roberts, Neil Wilkin (2016)Provides direct compositional and microstructural analysis of the large Salcombe tin-ingot assemblage.
Locator: Abstract; pp. 80–92; discussion and conclusion - supports · supports claim
The Salcombe metal cargoes: New light on the provenance and circulation of tin and copper in Later Bronze Age Europe provided by trace elements and isotopes — Daniel Berger, Quanyu Wang, Gerhard Brügmann, Nicole Lockhoff, Benjamin W. Roberts, Ernst Pernicka (2022)Reanalyses the large Salcombe copper and tin assemblages using trace elements and isotopes to evaluate provenance and circulation.
Locator: Abstract; archaeological objects; analytical results; discussion and conclusions
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