“…They recovered 31 objects including bronze objects of 22 weapons/fragments, one palstave-adze, one cauldron handle, one rectangular block/weight, one Sicilian strumento con immanicatura a cannone, three gold objects/fragments, an iron awl with a bone handle and a tin lump (Needham et al, 2013). In the absence of surviving organic material suitable for radiocarbon dating, detailed typo-chronological analyses of diagnostic bronze and gold objects, supported by radiocarbon dates from terrestrial sites containing comparable metalwork, placed the Salcombe assemblage in the Middle Bronze Age Penard metalwork phase (c. 1300-1150 BC) with the exception of one Type Nantes bronze sword which typologically dated to the Late Bronze Age Ewart Park metalwork phase (c. 1000-800 BC) (Needham and Giardino, 2008;Needham et al, 2013;Brandherm and Moskal-del Hoyo, 2014). Compositional analysis revealed that the bronzes were consistent with this dating as well as a high level of purity in the tin lump (Northover, 2013).…”