Tin moved over very long distances, but the total scale, frequency and social organization of Bronze Age tin trade from south-west Britain remain uncertain.

Supporting sources

• supports · supports claim
  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)

  Baseline source for the existing event on southwest British tin reaching Mediterranean cargoes.

  
  Locator: Abstract; analytical results; 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
• 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

Contradicting sources

No source links are recorded for this item in the current release.

Other source context

No source links are recorded for this item in the current release.