Bronze Age copper mining in mid Wales - fact or fantasy?
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Jan 1, 2022
Abstract
A current assumption is that mines in mid Wales dated to the Bronze Age were exploited for copper minerals. The possibility of Bronze Age mining of lead or lead/silver ores is explored. The possibility that the ores were not intended to be smelted to metal is also considered.
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Timberlake S 1988, ‘Excavations at Parys Mountain and Nantyreira’, Archaeology in Wales 28, 11-17.
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Timberlake S 1994, ‘Archaeological and Circumstantial Evidence for Early mining in Wales’, Peak District Mines Historical Society 12(3), 133-43.
Timberlake S 1995, ‘Bronze Age Mining and Prospecting in Mid-Wales’, abstract of paper presented at The Prehistory of Mining and Metallurgy Conference, British Museum, London.
Timberlake S 1996, ‘Tyn y Fron Mine’, Archaeology in Wales 36, 61-3.
Timberlake S and Jenkins D A 1997, ‘Geoarchaeological Research into Prehistoric Mining for Copper in Wales’, Leverhulme Trust Report 33.
Bick D 1989, ‘Observations on Ancient Mining in Wales’, in P and S Crew (eds), Early mining in the British Isles (Maentwrog: Plas Tan y Bwlch Occasional Paper No 1), 75-7.
Bick D 1991, The Old Metal Mines of Mid-Wales 6, 53-61.
Bick D 1994, ‘Early Mining Leats and Ponds in Wales’ Peak District Mines Historical Society 12(3), 38-9.
Bick D and Davies P W 1994, Lewis Morris and the Cardiganshire Mines (Aberystwyth).
Boon G 1981Cardiganshire Silver and the Aberystwyth Mint (Cardiff).
Boshier A 1969, ‘Mining Genesis’, Mining Survey No 64, 21-8.
Budd P and Taylor T 1995, ‘The Faerie Smith meets the Bronze Industry’, World Archaeology 27(1), 133-43.
Craddock P 1989, ‘Copper smelting in Bronze Age Britain: Problems and Possibilities’, in P and S Crew (eds), Early Mining in the British Isles (Maentwrog: Plas Tan y Bwlch Occasional Paper No 1), 69-71.
Craddock P 1995, Early Metal Mining and Production (Edinburgh).
Crew P 1991, ‘The Iron and Copper Slags at Baratti, Populonia, Italy’, Historical Metallurgy 25(2), 109-15.
Evans J 1872, Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain (New York).
Goodway M and Constable M A 1995, ‘Trent Sand’, Historical Metallurgy 29(1), 46-50.
Morris L 1744, ‘The Silver Mines Restored to the Ancient Britains’, BM Add 14950, NLW, BL 105.
O’Brien W 1996, Bronze Age Copper Mining in Britain and Ireland (Princes Risborough).
O’Brien W 1997, ‘Mount Gabriel and Metal Sourcing in the Bronze Age’, Historical Metallurgy 31(1), 8-11.
Percy J 1870, Metallurgy, Vol 3: Lead (London).
Pickin J 1988, ‘Stone Tools and Early Mining in Wales’, Archaeology in Wales 28, 18-19.
Timberlake S 1988, ‘Excavations at Parys Mountain and Nantyreira’, Archaeology in Wales 28, 11-17.
Timberlake S 1992, ‘Llancynfelin and Nantyrarian Mines’, Archaeology in Wales 32, 90-1.
Timberlake S 1994, ‘Archaeological and Circumstantial Evidence for Early mining in Wales’, Peak District Mines Historical Society 12(3), 133-43.
Timberlake S 1995, ‘Bronze Age Mining and Prospecting in Mid-Wales’, abstract of paper presented at The Prehistory of Mining and Metallurgy Conference, British Museum, London.
Timberlake S 1996, ‘Tyn y Fron Mine’, Archaeology in Wales 36, 61-3.
Timberlake S and Jenkins D A 1997, ‘Geoarchaeological Research into Prehistoric Mining for Copper in Wales’, Leverhulme Trust Report 33.
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Bronze Age copper mining in mid Wales - fact or fantasy?. (2022). Historical Metallurgy, 33(1), 7-12. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/301
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Bronze Age copper mining in mid Wales - fact or fantasy?. (2022). Historical Metallurgy, 33(1), 7-12. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/301