Chapter 23 – The Land of Running Silver

The early Greek historian Diodorus Siculus called Britain ‘the bright country’… This was an island where the sun set in a blaze of tin, copper and gold.

It has for ages long been generally accepted that in the Bronze Age foreign sailors came from the eastern Mediterranean to mine tin. The usual date being given was around 2000 BC. So, Gavin and Marcella venture off for a week’s holiday in Cornwall, where in the Bronze Age, the rivers ran with sparkling, silver-coloured tin ore.

Further reading:
Diodorus Siculus: http://www.livius.org/di-dn/diodorus/siculus.html

Professor Cyrus Gordon  ‘The existence of an ancient formidable commercial network of which the Mediterranean Sea was the epicentre is being revealed.’
http://skemman.is/stream/get/1946/5953/17206/3/Ioannis.pdf

Professor Archibald Sayce, The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylon, p.3 : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Sayce

Sargon of Akkad: http://history-world.org/sargon_the_great.htm

Barry Cunliffe, The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek – The Man Who Discovered Britain, Walker & Company, 2002 : http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001PBYUY/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=gavinnet06-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=B0001PBYUY

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