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Geological, mineralogical and environmental controls on the extraction of copper ores in the British Bronze Age - evidence from site-based studies and archaeological excavations in England and Wales

workings such as we find at Engine Vein consist of a series of small benched pits connected in places by narrow discontinuous lenses of malachite azurite and occasionally chrysocolla formed in between layers of baritised sandstone yet more easily worked deposit consisting of small nodules of malachite and azurite present within the between the presence of Mesolithic hunting camps close by and the various sites of mineral extraction Timberlake on the eastern side of the Manifold Valley in Staffordshire less than 50km SW of Alderley Edge. A prehistoric mineralogical and environmental controls on the extraction of copper ores in the British Bronze Age - evidence

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