property · prop_bi_metal_production_centre
Metal-production centre
Direct evidence exists for mining, smelting, casting or intensive metalworking.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Research description
The assignment identifies a place with direct production evidence. It does not by itself establish ownership, labour status, political control or the destination of all output.
Evidence and sources
- supports · defines
Prehistoric Copper Mining in South-West Ireland: The Mount Gabriel-Type Mines — William F. O'Brien (1990)Synthesises survey and excavation of Mount Gabriel-type mines, including an 11 m working and preserved wooden tools.
Locator: Abstract; pp. 269–290; chronology and mine 3/4 sections - supports · defines
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 - supports · defines
Rathgall multivallate hillfort and Late Bronze Age settlement — Database of Irish Excavation ReportsRecords the large settlement, workshop evidence, moulds and metalworking assemblage at Rathgall.
Locator: Site summary, finds and coordinate fields