Research papers, working papers and investigations produced through the Kassiteros Project. Individual studies are published below as dedicated research pages so that their source material, revisions and related project resources can develop independently.
Working paper · Bronze Age tinworking
The Tin Beneath the Fields
Chance finds, invisible miners and the scale of Bronze Age tinworking in Cornwall. A source-critical reassessment of the Penhallurick and Herring models, drawing together settlement archaeology, streamworks, cassiterite processing, metallurgy and comparative evidence.
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Britain at the Edge of the Oikoumenē
Diodorus Siculus 5.21–22 as Britain’s earliest substantial surviving continuous written history: Greek text, manuscripts, Pytheas, ethnology, tin, tides and archaeology.
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