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KEY PUBLICATIONS


Crew, P. & Crew, S. (Eds.) 1990

Early Mining in the British Isles, Plas Tan y Bwlch

Occasional Paper no.1 Porthmadog: Snowdonia Press, 80 pp


Pickin, J. 1990

Stone tools and early metal mining in England and Wales

IN Crew & Crew (eds), 39-42


Andrews, P. 1994

Excavating mines – with examples from Cwmystwyth, Chinflon and Kestel,

IN ‘Mining Before Powder’ Ford & Willies (eds.)

Bulletin of the Peak District Mines Historical Society Vol.12 (3), 13-22


Craddock, P.T. 1995

Early Metal Mining and Production,

Edinburgh University Press, 363 pp


Mighall T.M, Grattan J.P, Forsyth S. & Timberlake, S. 2000

Tracing atmospheric metal mining pollution in blanket peat

IN Tracers in Geomorphology, ed. DL Foster, publ. J.Wiley, 101-121


Jenkins, D., Owen, A. & Lewis, A. 2001

A rapid geochemical survey of the Bronze Age copper mines on the Great Orme,

Llandudno Archaeological Science ’97 BAR International Series 939, p.164-169


Timberlake, S. 2001

Mining and prospection for metals in Early Bronze Age Britain – making claims

within the archaeological landscape, In Bruck, J. (ed.) Bronze Age Landscapes -

Tradition and Transformation, publ. Oxbow Books, 179-192


Mighall T.M, Abrahams P.W. Grattan J.P., Hayes D., Timberlake S., Forsyth, S. 2002

Geochemical evidence for atmospheric pollution derived from prehistoric copper mining

at Copa Hill, Cwmystwyth, mid-Wales, UK

IN The Science of the Total Environment 292, 69-80, Elsevier


Mighall T.M., Timberlake S., Clark S.H.E. & Caseldine A.E. 2002

A Palaeoenvironmental Investigation of Sediments from the Prehistoric Mine of

Copa Hill, Cwmystwyth, mid-Wales IN Journal of Archaeological Science 29, 1161-1188


Craddock, P.T. & Lang, J. (eds.) 2003.

Mining and Metal Production through the Ages

The British Museum Press, 296 pp


Craddock, B., Cartwright, C.R., Craddock.P.T & Wray, W.B. 2003

Hafted stone mining hammer from Chuquicamata, Chile

IN Craddock & Lang (eds.), 52-68


Timberlake, S 2003a 

Excavations on Copa Hill, Cwmystwyth (1986-1999): An Early Bronze Age

Copper Mine within the uplands of Central Wales,  

BAR British Series 348, Archaeopress, Oxford, 127 pp


Timberlake, S 2003b  

Early metal mining research in the UK: the developments of the last 10 years,

in P.T. Craddock & J.Lang (eds) Mining and Metal Production through the Ages,

The British Museum Press, 21-42


KEY PUBLICATIONS (OTHER AUTHORS)


Dutton, A. & Fasham, P.J. 1994

Prehistoric Copper Mining on the Great Orme,

Llandudno, Gwynedd, Proceedings of Prehistoric Society 60,  245-286


O’Brien, W. 1994

Mount Gabriel: Bronze Age Mining in Ireland (Bronze Age Studies no.3),

Galway University Press, 371 pp


O’ Brien, W. 1996

Bronze Age Copper Mining in Britain and Ireland,

Shire Archaeology no.71, 64 pp


O’ Brien, W. 2004

Ross Island – Mining, Metal and Society in Early Ireland,

Bronze Age Studies no.6, Department of Archaeology, National University of

Ireland, Galway, 767 pp


Williams, R.A. 2013.

Linking Bronze Age Copper Smelting Slags from Pentrwyn

and the Great Orme for Ore and Metal. The Origins of Metallurgy in Europe

(P. Craddock (ed.))

Historical Metallurgy 47 (1), 93-109.




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