Bronze Age World

Review and provenance

Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.

Dataset workflow: not recorded. This is separate from specialist review.

Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.

Geography and uncertainty

geometry type

Polygon

coordinate status

research_reconstruction_from_published_mine_points

coordinate confidence

moderate

reconstruction method

Convex envelope of the published Crumpane, Mount Gabriel and Ballyrisode mine locations; no modern administrative boundary was used.

explanation

Convex envelope of the published Crumpane, Mount Gabriel and Ballyrisode mine locations; no modern administrative boundary was used. The polygon is a generalized mining-distribution envelope, not a mining catchment boundary or territorial claim.

Evidence and sources

supports · locates or defines geometry
Prehistoric Copper Mining in South-West Ireland: The Mount Gabriel-Type Mines — William F. O'Brien (1990)
Mine-location map and site descriptions for Mount Gabriel, Crumpane and Ballyrisode.

Locator: Abstract; pp. 269–290; chronology and mine 3/4 sections

Where to go next

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Referenced records

Mount Gabriel mining district · entity