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The Royal Cornwall Museum is opening its redesigned Mineral Gallery next month, and has revealed in advance discoveries within the collection, evidencing Bronze Age mining in the southwest United Kingdom.
Both the Antler Pick and Wooden Shovel were found in the Carnon Valley, mid-Cornwall, when alluvial tin streamworks were being reworked in the nineteenth century, with radiocarbon dating indicating they are from the British Bronze Age . Found circa 1855, the Antler Pick is around 3,600 years old, or Early Bronze Age, and is the first evidence for the extraction of tin and/or alluvial gold in the British Isles. Examination of the Antler Pick reveals tally marks carved into the side, which could signify the recording of work by prehistoric miners, with the research and dating for this piece conducted by Dr Simon Timberlake, Early Mines Research Group.
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