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The Salcombe metal cargoes: New light on the provenance and circulation of tin and copper in Later Bronze Age Europe provided by trace elements and isotopes (2022)
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Berger, D., Wang, Q., Brügmann, G., Lockhoff, N., Roberts, B., & Pernicka, E. (2022). The Salcombe metal cargoes: New light on the provenance and circulation of tin and copper in Later Bronze Age Europe provided by trace elements and isotopes. Journal of Archaeological Science, 138, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2022.105543

Early Balkan Metallurgy: Origins, Evolution and Society, 6200–3700 BC (2021)
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Radivojević, M., & Roberts, B. W. (2021). Early Balkan Metallurgy: Origins, Evolution and Society, 6200–3700 BC. Journal of World Prehistory, 34(2), 195-278. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-021-09155-7

This paper analyses and re-evaluates current explanations and interpretations of the origins, development and societal context of metallurgy in the Balkans (c. 6200–3700 BC). The early metallurgy in this region encompasses the production, distributio... Read More about Early Balkan Metallurgy: Origins, Evolution and Society, 6200–3700 BC.

Reassessing Community Cemeteries: Cremation Burials in Britain during the Middle Bronze Age (c. 1600–1150 cal BC) (2018)
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Caswell, E., & Roberts, B. (2018). Reassessing Community Cemeteries: Cremation Burials in Britain during the Middle Bronze Age (c. 1600–1150 cal BC). Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 84, 329-357. https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2018.9

The Middle Bronze Age (c. 1600–1150 cal bc) in Britain is traditionally understood to represent a major funerary transition. This is a transformation from a heterogeneous funerary rite, largely encompassing inhumations and cremations in burial mounds... Read More about Reassessing Community Cemeteries: Cremation Burials in Britain during the Middle Bronze Age (c. 1600–1150 cal BC).

Copper ingots from a probable Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Salcombe, Devon: composition and microstructure (2018)
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Wang, Q., Strekopytov, S., & Roberts, B. (2018). Copper ingots from a probable Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Salcombe, Devon: composition and microstructure. Journal of Archaeological Science, 97, 102-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2018.07.002

The seabed site of a probable Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Salcombe in south-west England was explored between 1977 and 1982 and from 2004 onwards. Nearly 400 objects including copper and tin ingots, bronze artefacts/fragments and gold ornam... Read More about Copper ingots from a probable Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Salcombe, Devon: composition and microstructure.

The Provenance, Use, and Circulation of Metals in the European Bronze Age: The State of Debate (2018)
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Radivojević, M., Roberts, B., Pernicka, E., Stos-Gale, Z., Martinón-Torres, M., Rehren, T., …Broodbank, C. (2019). The Provenance, Use, and Circulation of Metals in the European Bronze Age: The State of Debate. Journal of Archaeological Research, 27(2), 131-185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-018-9123-9

Bronze is the defining metal of the European Bronze Age and has been at the center of archaeological and science-based research for well over a century. Archaeometallurgical studies have largely focused on determining the geological origin of the con... Read More about The Provenance, Use, and Circulation of Metals in the European Bronze Age: The State of Debate.

On the curious date of the Rylstone log-coffin burial (2016)
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Melton, N., Montgomery, J., Roberts, B., Cook, G., & Harris, S. (2016). On the curious date of the Rylstone log-coffin burial. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 82, 383-392. https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2016.5

Radiocarbon dates have been obtained from a log-coffin burial excavated in 1864 by Canon William Greenwell from a ditched round barrow at Scale House, near Rylstone, North Yorkshire. The oak tree-trunk coffin had contained an extended body wrapped in... Read More about On the curious date of the Rylstone log-coffin burial.

Tin ingots from a probable Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Salcombe, Devon: Composition and microstructure. (2016)
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Wang, Q., Strekcopytov, S., Roberts, B., & Wilkin, N. (2016). Tin ingots from a probable Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Salcombe, Devon: Composition and microstructure. Journal of Archaeological Science, 67, 80-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.01.018

The seabed site of a probable Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Salcombe in south-west England was explored between 1977 and 2013. Nearly 400 objects including copper and tin ingots, bronze artefacts/fragments and gold ornaments were found. The S... Read More about Tin ingots from a probable Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Salcombe, Devon: Composition and microstructure..

Collapsing Commodities or Lavish Offerings? Understanding Massive Metalwork Deposition at Langton Matravers, Dorset During the Bronze Age–Iron Age Transition. (2015)
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Roberts, B., Boughton, D., Dinwiddy, M., Doshi, N., Fitzpatrick, A., Hook, D., …Woodward, P. (2015). Collapsing Commodities or Lavish Offerings? Understanding Massive Metalwork Deposition at Langton Matravers, Dorset During the Bronze Age–Iron Age Transition. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 34(4), 365-395. https://doi.org/10.1111/ojoa.12064

The discovery of 373 intact and broken tin-bronze socketed axes accompanied by 404 fragments in four pits at Langton Matravers collectively represents one of the largest hoards found to date in prehistoric Britain and Ireland. They were very probably... Read More about Collapsing Commodities or Lavish Offerings? Understanding Massive Metalwork Deposition at Langton Matravers, Dorset During the Bronze Age–Iron Age Transition..

What have metal-detectorists ever done for us? Discovering Bronze Age gold in England and Wales. (2014)
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Murgia, A., Roberts, B., & Wiseman, R. (2014). What have metal-detectorists ever done for us? Discovering Bronze Age gold in England and Wales. Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt, 44(3), 353-367

This paper discusses the impact of metal-detecting and legal frameworks on the reporting of Bronze Age gold discoveries in England and Wales between 1740 and 2010. The 13-year period after the introduction of the Treasure Act (1996) saw a major incre... Read More about What have metal-detectorists ever done for us? Discovering Bronze Age gold in England and Wales..