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To: SunkenCiv

Didn’t the Phoenicians go to Cornwall for Tin to make Bronze with?


4 posted on 01/30/2008 4:27:29 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Mike Huckabee: If Gomer Pyle and Hugo Chavez had a love child this is who it would be.)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla; colorado tanker

That’s probably true, as that appears to have been the nearest, easiest source of tin, and they were in the western Med and western Africa. But there must have been a tin trade route that antedates the Phoenicians, I think — tin mining in Cornwall is older.


5 posted on 01/31/2008 8:14:40 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__________________Profile updated Wednesday, January 16, 2008)
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