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Dr R. Alan Williams
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Archaeologist and geologist. PhD, FSA. Honorary Research Fellow, Durham University. Bronze Age tin, copper and gold sources and trade networks.
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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.

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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...
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February 3, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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The Times published an article last Saturday on our archaeological excavations on St Michael’s Mount.

How Britain’s earliest export transformed the ancient world
www.thetimes.com/article/9464...
How Britain’s earliest export transformed the ancient world
New archaeological evidence from Cornwall shows how a rare metal underpinned a technological revolution
www.thetimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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Digging for Britain on BBC2 this Thursday (5th Feb) at 20:00 hrs includes a feature on our Bronze Age tin archaeological excavations on St Michael's Mount in Cornwall. The programme is already available on BBC iplayer.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
February 3, 2026 at 12:06 PM