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To: Renfield

Weren`t the best tin mines in England?

Carry coals to Newcastle?


3 posted on 11/26/2013 9:39:39 AM PST by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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To: bunkerhill7
Weren`t the best tin mines in England?

Yes, but in Cornwall. The tin might have come from (for instance) Cornwall, carried to a European port and then possibly trans-shipped to another part of England.

It would still have been faster, cheaper and safer than walking across Bronze Age England. I don't think we had much in the way of roads until the Romans.

5 posted on 11/26/2013 9:52:08 AM PST by agere_contra (I once saw a movie where only the police and military had guns. It was called 'Schindler's List'.)
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