Excavating the British tin trade that shaped the Bronze Age « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog

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In 2025, we published an article in Antiquity, demonstrating through chemical and isotopic analyses that, c. 1300 BC, tin ingots made from tin ores in southwest Britain are found on shipwrecks off the coast of Israel, around 4000 km away. We also showed that the tin from the Rochelongue shipwreck, found off the south coast