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From Sicily to Salcombe: a Mediterranean Bronze Age object from British coastal waters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Stuart Needham  and
Claudio Giardino
Stuart Needham
Affiliation:
Old Pitts Farm, Langrish, Hants GU32 1RQ, UK (Email: [email protected])
Claudio Giardino
Affiliation:
Via F. Dall'Ongaro 95, 00152 Rome, Italy (Email: [email protected])
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Bronze Age objects found in the English Channel off Salcombe, southern Britain, include an implement which has its normal home in Sicilian agriculture – perhaps as a plough shoe. The authors assemble and classify the objects and consider the web of exchange networks that brought the artefact from Sicily to Devon via France around the thirteenth century BC.

Keywords

Sicilysouthern Britainlater Bronze Ageagricultureunderwater
Type
Research article
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Antiquity , Volume 82 , Issue 315 , March 2008 , pp. 60 - 72
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2008

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