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carnkie
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17 years ago

I've recently become sidetracked into reading about the latest scientific developments concerning the Bronze Age. Particularly as the south west was just about the only area in Britain in which both metals were available and yet little is known about developments there. I've uploaded an article from the Oxford Journal of Archaeology if anyone is interested. 🙂

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Roy Morton
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17 years ago

Re Bronze age, The article you mention sounds very good and I would certainly like a download. There have been some good bronze age finds throughout the county and Hamilton Jenkin notes one such find near Barriper, of collection of axe type tools found under a very large boulder on a farm. Whenever I lift a stone all I seem to get are creepy crawly things. Regards, Roy M.

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carnkie
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17 years ago

I'ts true that there have quite a few finds in the south-west but little of the recent research has been directed in this direction. I mentioned this to Bryan Earl ( a leading light in this field) and he agreed. When you consider that the south-west was about the only area in GB and Ireland that had an abundance of both metals (talking about tin bronze here not arsenic bronze) this appears slightly strange. It seems to me that the very many bronze age artifacts found elsewhere were either imported or there must have been an internal trade with the south-west for the tin. If you are interested in a later period there is an excellent book not long published by Henrietta Quinnell about excavations at Trethurgy Round, St. Austell. Community and Status in Roman and Post-Roman Cornwall. 😎

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