[SunkenCiv]

• New Study Of Uluburun Shipwreck Reveals Ancient Trade Network [12/02/2022]
• Imported Lead Ingots Offer Evidence of Complex Bronze Age Trade Networks: A new analysis of shipwrecked metals inscribed with Cypro-Minoan markings suggests the objects originated in Sardinia, some 1,550 miles away from Cyprus [04/05/2022]
• London Rainstorm Reveals Trove of 300 Iron Age Coins [07/15/2021]
• Havering Hoard: Weapons found on building site to go on show [10/31/2019]
• Groundbreaking study: Ancient tin ingots found in Israel were mined in England [09/23/2019]
• The road to Scandinavia's bronze age: Trade routes, metal provenance, and mixing [07/25/2019]
• Pytheas: Ancient Greek Explorer of Britain, the Arctic Circle & Northern Europe [06/11/2019]
• Ancient Cornish barrow site discovered [04/02/2018]
• 3,000-year-old shipwreck shows European trade was thriving in Bronze Age [11/26/2013]
• Ancient 'sauna' unearthed in Assynt [10/20/2012]
• Michigan Copper in the Mediterranean [08/06/2011]
• A historic deja vu: Phokaians taking civilization to Marseille [05/06/2009]
• Pytheas Visited The Isle Of Man In 300BC - Claim [04/14/2008]
• Gaulish coin hoard is France's biggest ever [02/25/2008]
• Archaeologist May Have Found Mysterious Lost City of Apollo [08/16/2007]
• Furness Dig May Have Found St Patrick's Birthplace [07/13/2005]
• Deepest Wreck [10/17/2004]
• Divers Suprised By Iron Age Port (UK) [09/17/2002]

[mjp]

Tintagel, a rugged coastal site in Cornwall, England, is famously linked to Arthurian legend as his birthplace, primarily through Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain (c. 1136). Geoffrey claimed Arthur was conceived at Tintagel Castle when Uther Pendragon, magically disguised as Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall, slept with Igraine.

The nearest tin mines to Tintagel were likely on Bodmin Moor, about 20–30 miles away, depending on the route. Major tin mining areas in west Cornwall, like St Just, were farther, around 50–70 miles.

[fso301]

The biblical Tarshish has long been speculated with Britain and its tin mines.

[monkeyshine]

Interesting. Well I’m sure if they had the resources, they used them and traded them. But until now I was under the impression most of the tin came from Germania (Germany and the surroundings of Central Europe) and a little bit from Hispania (Spain) usually in the mountainous regions thereof.

[crusty old prospector]

Poldark is probably still trying to open Wheal Leisure.

[zeestephen]

Years ago, I used to watch a BBC period series based on families that owned tin mines in southwest Britain.

"Poldark" - I think.

The period was late 1700s, I think.