Tracing the record of early alluvial tin mining on Dartmoor, UK

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 165, Issue , 1999, Pages 91-102

  Thorndycraft, Varyl R ^a   Pirrie, Duncan ^a   Brown, Anthony G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; MINERALOGY; MINING; PREHISTORIC; TIN;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0033368804     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.165.01.07     Document Type: Article

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