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Tin sources for prehistoric bronze production in Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

P. Budd ,
D. Gale ,
R. A. F. Ixer  and
R. G. Thomas
P. Budd
Affiliation:
Ancient Metallurgy Research Group, Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, England
D. Gale
Affiliation:
Ancient Metallurgy Research Group, Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, England
R. A. F. Ixer
Affiliation:
School of Earth Science, Birmingham University, Birmingham B15 2TT, England
R. G. Thomas
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Western Sydney, Nepean, P.O. Box 10, Kingswood NSW 2747, Australia
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Ireland is important in the early metallurgy of northwest Europe, for it has given us a large majority of the Early Bronze Age artefacts from the whole British Isles. Is there tinore to have been mined in early Ireland to produce this bronze or must it have come from elsewhere?

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Antiquity , Volume 68 , Issue 260 , September 1994 , pp. 518 - 524
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1994

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