Copper Mining in the Bronze Age at Mynydd Parys, Anglesey, Wales

The Bronze Age in Britain is now a term often used to include both the first use of copper c . 2400 bc and also tin-bronze from 2100 , all which required extensive copper. Prehistoric mining for this metal has been identified surface underground workings Parys Mine, Mynydd Parys, Anglesey, although almost are obscured by deep spoil more recent industrial period. These copper-bearing ores bedded lodes, together with some intruded vein deposits. have exposed where they intersected early 19th century on above 16 fathom 20 levels Mine. Spoil exposures contain stone hammers (‘mauls’), wood fragments, charcoal; samples latter radiocarbon dated chronological modelling suggesting activity took place half 2nd millennium cal Although relatively limited extent, these important prehistoric sites among earliest found UK. They survived due their protection erosion accessibility.