Dr R. Alan Williams (@r-alan-w.bsky.social)

Update on our archaeological excavations on St Michael’s Mount in Cornwall and the first direct evidence linking the island to the Bronze Age tin trade. www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

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Excavating the British tin trade that shaped the Bronze Age « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog 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... https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2026/01/19/excavating-the-british-tin-trade-that-shaped-the-bronze-age/?ffbclid=IwY2xjawPuxSpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeKQGq7kpzZkMina8tddvtGSmgC2hiNy1QF6E1nI1C7pKVZL-UckpBMm_UYWI_aem_fyaCZ18TLTWTN4zr1ny8jw