How Dartmoor Tin put Britain's Ocean City on the Map by local historian Chris Robinson.
Tracing the local tin industry back over 3000 years the author argues that without tin from Dartmoor, and parts of Cornwall, the Bronze Age (which was dependent on copper and tin) would have played out quite differently. Back then the only known source of tin was from the South West of England and the international trade enjoyed by this part of the world gave rise to the notion of Plymouth Sound being miscast as the Cassiterides – literally the Tin Islands – with Mount Batten being the major trading port – Ictis.
Pages: 256
Published: 2019