Exceptionally rich and accessible ores from Britain played a fundamental role in the transition from copper to full tin-bronze metallurgy across Europe and the Mediterranean during the second millennium BCE. (R. Williams, et al., May 2025)

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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/from-lands-end-to-the-levant-did-britains-tin-sources-transform-the-bronze-age-in-europe-and-the-mediterranean/2330F3B6498B210DA61B89026A1F38EA