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Boom and bust in Bronze Age Britain : the Great Orme copper mine and European trade / R. Alan Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, R. Alan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Ormes Head (Wales)--Antiquities.
- Copper mines and mining, Prehistoric--Wales--Great Ormes Head.
- Bronze age--Wales--Great Ormes Head.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Wales--Great Ormes Head.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 343 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Archaeopress Archaeology, 2023.
- Summary:
- The Great Orme copper mine in North Wales is one of the largest surviving Bronze Age mines in Europe. This book presents new interdisciplinary research to reveal a copper mine of European importance, dominating Britain's copper supply from c. 1600-1400 BC, with some metal reaching mainland Europe - from Brittany to as far as the Baltic.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 8, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9781803273792 (PDF ebook) :
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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