H 290 x W 205 mm
374 pages
218 figures, 36 tables (colour throughout)
Published Feb 2023
ISBN
Paperback: 9781803273785
Digital: 9781803273792
Keywords
Bronze Age; Prehistoric Mining; Copper; Smelting; Ore Analysis; Lead Isotopes; European Trade; Long-distance Networks; Provenance; Acton Park; Bronze; Metalwork; Archaeometallurgy; Ore Mineralogy; Wales
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The Great Orme copper mine in North Wales is one of the largest surviving Bronze Age mines in Europe. This book presents new interdisciplinary research to reveal a copper mine of European importance, dominating Britain’s copper supply from c. 1600-1400 BC, with some metal reaching mainland Europe - from Brittany to as far as the Baltic.
Summary ;
About the Author ;
Acknowledgements ;
Chapter 1: Introduction ;
Chapter 2: The Bronze Age research context ;
Chapter 3: Bronze Age mining and smelting ;
Chapter 4: Great Orme mine site and Pentrwyn smelting site ;
Chapter 5: Review of metal characterisation and provenance techniques ;
Chapter 6: Methodology, materials and analytical methods ;
Chapter 7: Results: Defining the Great Orme mine-based metal group ;
Chapter 8: Results: Great Orme ore mineralogy and Pentrwyn slag studies ;
Chapter 9: Discussion and interpretation ;
Chapter 10: Conclusions and future work ;
Bibliography ;
Appendix I: Compilation of published chemical analyses of ores from the British and Irish Bronze Age copper mines ;
Appendix II: Compilation of Cornish copper ore analyses ;
Appendix III: Histograms and correlation coefficients on the chemical analyses of Great Orme copper ores ;
Appendix IV: Chemical analyses of Group I palstaves (extracted from OXSAM database) ;
Appendix V: Compilation of published lead isotope analyses from the British and Irish Bronze Age copper mines not included in Table 7.11 ;
Index