{"id":17520,"date":"2025-05-14T18:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=17520"},"modified":"2025-05-14T18:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T17:58:09","slug":"cornish-tin-traders-definitive-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/05\/14\/cornish-tin-traders-definitive-proof\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornish tin-traders &#8211; definitive proof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After more than a century of debate, definitive scientific proof on links between Cornwall and the ancient Mediterranean. <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-05-britain-distance-tin-bronze-age.html\">&#8220;How Britain&#8217;s long-distance tin trade transformed the Bronze Age&#8221;<\/a>&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Published in the journal Antiquity, the results provide <strong>the first concrete evidence<\/strong> that Cornwall and Devon were major suppliers of tin for bronze production in the ancient world. [&#8230;] British tin was traded up to [2,500 miles away by] around 1300 BC. [&#8230;] The research team at Durham [University], in collaboration with European institutions, used chemical and isotope analyses&#8221; of metal found in ancient shipwrecks. (My emphasis).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which of course doesn&#8217;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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After more than a century of debate, definitive scientific proof on links between Cornwall and the ancient Mediterranean. &#8220;How Britain&#8217;s long-distance tin trade transformed the Bronze Age&#8221;&#8230; &#8220;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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}