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Ancient Tin Ingots donated to Exeter Museum

Submitted by PaulM on Wednesday, 24 July 2002  Page Views: 2074

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Over forty rare Bronze Age tin ingots from Devon, recovered from the Erme Estuary, are to be donated to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter where a selection will go on display.

Discovered in 1991 by the South West Maritime Archaeological Group the find was reported to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency's Receiver of Wreck and the wreck designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 as being of national historical interest.

The ingots are of different shapes and sizes, ranging from approx. 10cm to 20cm in diameter. The ingots may have found there way to the bed of Erme as a result of a vessel capsizing while trading along the coast between Cornwall and Devon.

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"Ancient Tin Ingots donated to Exeter Museum" | Login/Create an Account | 3 News and Comments
  
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Re: 3,000 Year old Wreck Reveals its Secrets by Anonymous on Wednesday, 16 February 2011
Hi found your site by accident very interesting,

I am one of the team who found this Bronze Age Wreck site

SWMAG Mick Kightley
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Re: 3,000 Year old Wreck Reveals its Secrets by MikeAitch on Wednesday, 17 February 2010
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2 minute video here: from BBC South West 2005
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Re: 3,000 Year old Wreck Reveals its Secrets by AngieLake on Monday, 15 February 2010
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"Experts believe the Bronze Age trading vessel sank in the English Channel as it carried an 'extremely' valuable cargo of tin and copper to the UK from Europe."

News of the world's oldest shirpwreck with Tin and Copper ingots and further Bronze Age artefacts found 300 yards off the coast of Salcombe.
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http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/3-000-year-old-wreck-reveals-secrets/article-1834252-detail/article.html
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