The Bronze Age Metalwork of South Western Britain, Parts i and ii

Pearce, Susan

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“…The discovery of Bronze Age bronze metalwork in alluvial tin streams (see Pearce, 1983;Penhallurik, 1986 with the bias towards Cornwall rather than Dartmoor/Bodmin moor at least partially due to the intensity of 18 th -19 th century re-workings) strongly implies that alluvial sources were exploited (cf. Shell, 1979).…”

Section: Tin Productionmentioning

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“…Due to their extreme rarity and morphological simplicity, the tin ingots are not typologically diagnostic and, whilst they are more common, neither are the copper/copper alloy ingots (Bachmann et al, 2004 opposed to their relative ubiquity in the later date range (see Pearce, 1983;Knight et al, 2015 for a comprehensive Bronze Age metalwork catalogue for southwest England), is not sufficient grounds to propose a finer temporal resolution for the tin ingots. Hence, whilst the tin ingots have an overall date range of c. 1300-800 BC, they could either be c. 1300-1150 BC or c. 1000-800 BC based upon the typo-chronology of the two groups of potentially associated bronze and gold metal objects.…”

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Tin ingots from a probable Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Salcombe, Devon: Composition and microstructure

Wang¹,

Strekopytov²,

Roberts³

et al. 2016

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Section: Tin Productionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Tin ingots from a probable Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Salcombe, Devon: Composition and microstructure

Wang¹,

Strekopytov²,

Roberts³

et al. 2016

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…Many researchers have investigated individual artefact types from the river (Gerloff 1975;Ehrenberg 1977;Needham 1979;Burgess and Gerloff 1981;Burgess and Colquhoun 1988), and material of specific areas and periods (Rowlands 1976;O'Connor 1980;Needham and Burgess 1980;Pearce 1984). Some scholars have also considered the role of deposition in the Bronze Age (Ehrenberg 1980;Needham 1988;Bradley 1990).…”

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The life cycle of bronze age metalwork from the Thames

York

2002

Oxford J Archaeology

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The high proportion of Bronze Age metalwork found in the Thames has aroused interest for many years, but all too little is known of the circumstances in which this material was deposited. Much of it is weaponry, but there are finds of tools as well. This paper examines the material found upstream of Teddington and considers its treatment before it entered the river. A high proportion of the artefacts had been used and some of them deliberately destroyed. There are marked variations in the selection and treatment of these artefacts along different lengths of the river and in different periods of the Bronze Age, but it seems likely that the proportion of fine metalwork that was deliberately damaged before it entered the river increased sharply over time. Recovery methods and documentationMost river metalwork was recovered by dredging, and some was found during the building of locks, bridges and riverside structures or brought to museums as stray finds.

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“…The zone of mineralization occurs north of the Carnmenellis granite and includes the Carn Brea and Carn Marth granites as well as numerous elvans. The tin lodes that are associated with these granites are some of the most important of the peninsula (Pearce, 1983) and are extensively cut by Fig. 7.…”

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“…7). The river Carnon is thus one of the best known alluvial tin deposits in Cornwall (Penhallurick, 1986) and carries significant amounts of gold compared with other Cornish tin stream works (Pearce, 1983;Lehrberger, 1995). As a consequence, the alluvial gold in the Carnon may have acted as a stimulus to alluvial tin miners in prehistoric times (Penhallurick, 1986) who concentrated their attention on the lower valleys.…”

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Provenance of the gold of the Early Bronze Age Nebra Sky Disk, central Germany: geochemical characterization of natural gold from Cornwall

Ehser¹,

Borg²,

Pernicka³

2011

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The Early Bronze Age Nebra Sky Disk, central Germany, comprises different types of gold inlays which have been plated and punched onto a bronze disk in three phases. The present study aims at provenancing the gold, used for the first phase, which includes gold sheets in the shape of a sun or full moon, a crescent-shaped moon, and 32 stars. The geochemical composition, determined by LA-ICP-MS, of one fragment of the sun sheet is compared with 66 native gold particles from six placer deposits and one lode gold deposit in Cornwall. The focus on Cornish gold deposits is based on results of previous provenance and tin isotope studies. The geochemical survey is performed using distinctive geochemical tracers (e.g., Co, Ni, Cu, Ru, Pd, Ag, Sn, Sb, Ir, and Pt) which are characterized by high stability during geological and metallurgical processes. For Cornwall, the Carnon gold placers at the localities Devoran and Feock show different variations in Co, Ni, Pd, Ag, Sn, and Sb which correlate with the variation found in the gold from the sun sheet when mixed. This mixture would have been easily possible as both localities are located about three km apart from each other. Similar geochemical comparisons with natural gold from central and southeastern Europe, carried out in a previous provenance study, showed no similarity with the sun sheet. Differences in Cu and Pt contents between the Carnon gold placers and the sun sheet, which have also been detected for the previously studied gold deposits, question the relevance of mineral (micro) inclusions and accretions or unintended contamination with heavy minerals during processing. The results on the gold further led to the comparison of 18 Cornish copper ores with the bronze of the Nebra hoard using lead isotope ratios, which showed no correlation, excluding Cornwall as copper source. With the gold of the first phase of the Nebra Sky Disk being likely to originate from Cornwall, substantial metal trade from the British Isles towards central Germany during the Early Bronze Age must be assumed.

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The Bronze Age Metalwork of South Western Britain, Parts i and ii

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Tin ingots from a probable Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Salcombe, Devon: Composition and microstructure

Tin ingots from a probable Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Salcombe, Devon: Composition and microstructure

The life cycle of bronze age metalwork from the Thames

Provenance of the gold of the Early Bronze Age Nebra Sky Disk, central Germany: geochemical characterization of natural gold from Cornwall

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