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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
IN The Science of the Total Environment 292, 69-
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-
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-
Timberlake, S 2003a
Excavations on Copa Hill, Cwmystwyth (1986-
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-
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-
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-
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