After more than a century of debate, definitive scientific proof on links between Cornwall and the ancient Mediterranean. “How Britain’s long-distance tin trade transformed the Bronze Age”…

“Published in the journal Antiquity, the results provide the first concrete evidence that Cornwall and Devon were major suppliers of tin for bronze production in the ancient world. […] British tin was traded up to [2,500 miles away by] around 1300 BC. […] The research team at Durham [University], in collaboration with European institutions, used chemical and isotope analyses” of metal found in ancient shipwrecks. (My emphasis).

Which of course doesn’t endorse far-fetch notions that ancient Phoenician traders were rocking up for a tour of Stonehenge, or that the young Jesus had an uncle in the long-distance tin-trade and thus walked inland and over to Glastonbury. But at least it overturns any previous scepticism on the trade.