Bronze Age Tin From Cornwall to the Carmel, or How Tinny was My Valley

Bronze Age Tin From Cornwall to the Carmel, or How Tinny was My Valley

41:14 Jul 7, 2025
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Bronze is a metal so popular that it has an entire age named after. But to make bronze you need tin otherwise you have squishy copper tools and, well, no Bronze Age. We’ve looked high and low for the source and now it seems like it might have been Cornwall. That’s right, the area of southwest Britain famous for pirates, pasties and, um, tin mines?
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