A Bronze Age antler pick of c.2000 BC, found 40 ft down in tin bed nr Truro, Cornwall :) Now in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/NJNTNUNFDO
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A Bronze Age antler pick of c.2000 BC, found 40 ft down in tin bed nr Truro, Cornwall :) Now in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/NJNTNUNFDO
A tin ring made from pure Cornish tin, dated c.950-700 BC & found at Vårdinge, Sweden... https://www.academia.edu/10144668/Moving_metals_II_provenancing_Scandinavian_Bronze_Age_artefacts_by_lead_isotope_and_elemental_analyses …pic.twitter.com/1MAP4ADY6t
Bronze Age maritime trade—suggested that "ports in the British Isles acted as transit centres" for metals incl tin: https://www.academia.edu/10144668/Moving_metals_II_provenancing_Scandinavian_Bronze_Age_artefacts_by_lead_isotope_and_elemental_analyses …pic.twitter.com/9su03nJ8q1
A 5th-2ndC BC Mediterranean anchor found at Plymouth, nr a candidate for the 4thC BC British tin-trading site Ictis: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/08/a-mediterranean-anchor.html …pic.twitter.com/QmRDleZ2jn
Interestingly, recently argued by both Broderick & Coates that the name Britain may be Punic and mean 'tin land': http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/12/punic-names-britain.html?m=1 …pic.twitter.com/DI7Yn4ySOu
Fwiw, Punic & early Numidian coins have been found in SW Britain & along the south coast: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/06/the-distribution-of-numidian-coins.html … & http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/04/thanet-tanit-and-the-phoenicians.html …pic.twitter.com/p65y8CnBPF
A bronze Roman ring dug up by tinners in the streamworks at Polmassick, St Ewe, near Mevagissey, Cornwall, in 1787. Now in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/R0Iv5YrmfV
Tin trade generally thought to lie behind early Byzantine imports to SW Britain incl Tintagel (map=L5/E6thC PRSW distribution, E.Campbell)pic.twitter.com/rx9zsQN25I
A fragment of a Byzantine wine amphora from Greece, found at the important 5th–6thC site of Tintagel, Cornwall; poss linked to tin trade?pic.twitter.com/ey1sx4BVkD
A probably 8th–9thC AD oak shovel from the tin streamworks at Boscarne, Bodmin (Cornwall); now in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/a8Cy7IU5tn
The 9thC Anglo-Saxon Trewhiddle hoard, found over 5m below ground in a tin mine near St Austell, Cornwall, in 1774: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=89030&partId=1&place=31554&plaA=31554-3-1&page=1 …pic.twitter.com/kDksV0J4HY
Abu'l-Fida in the early 14thC on the medieval export of tin from England to Alexandria (based on the 13thC work of Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi).pic.twitter.com/Y7WKpJZlfE
A medieval tin figurine w/ 4 Hebrew characters inscribed on it—poss 13thC & originally had a crown, now lost; found on Bodmin Moor in 1853.pic.twitter.com/Iymds9QbVT
A medieval oak shovel found in the 19thC in a tin streamworks below Temple bridge, Bodmin Moor (Cornwall).pic.twitter.com/HP9M711VPJ
Tinners' seal, of the form on Edward I's 1305 charter to the tinners—Latin text reads 'The seal of the community of tinners of Cornwall'.pic.twitter.com/6iQvbecm36
The St Mawes tin ingot from Cornwall, found in 1812 and weighing 72 kg; it is now in @Cornwall_Museum and is thought to probably date from the later medieval period.pic.twitter.com/e1szphsXI0
A water-worn gold nugget, the largest known from Cornwall (56mm or 2.2 inches long); found 1808 in Carnon Valley tin stream works and now in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/vitB6NOuWv
A possibly 7th-century tin ingot with a cross mark from Praa Sands, Cornwall; now in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/KsSiwxuUVU
A 3rd-/4th-century AD tin ingot from Carnanton, Cornwall; it weighs around 40 pounds and was found in 1819.pic.twitter.com/JZ1I2ZSuDb
Thanks, Nebra Sky Disc how truly remarkable! Do you know if any DNA studies been done on current Cornish population?
Not my area, I fear; have been some, but not sure they showed anything especially remarkable, though others may be able to comment more!
(Am sceptical about historical methodology of using modern DNA to look at far past; archaeological DNA more interesting potentially tho!)
I'm unsure of scientific value of DNA studies but I was reminded of an interesting study done a few yrs ago in Cheddar.
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