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Boom and bust in Bronze Age Britain : the Great Orme copper mine and European trade / R. Alan Williams.
Penn Museum Library GN778.22.G7 W538 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, R. Alan, author.
- Series:
- Archaeopress archaeology
- Archaeopress Archaeology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Copper mines and mining, Prehistoric--Wales--Great Ormes Head.
- Copper mines and mining, Prehistoric.
- Bronze age--Wales--Great Ormes Head.
- Bronze age.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Wales--Great Ormes Head.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Great Ormes Head (Wales)--Antiquities.
- Great Ormes Head (Wales).
- Antiquities.
- Wales--Great Ormes Head.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 343 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Summertown Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing LTD, [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 -- Source other than Library of Congress.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-323) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781803273785
- 180327378X
- OCLC:
- 1351686733
- Publisher Number:
- 99995860901
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