Mining archaeology is a specific field well-developed in the British Isles during recent decades. A reason of ongoing interest in this field is the particular...

animals of the British Isles, including extirpated species. Only a small number of the listed species are globally extinct (most famously the Irish elk...

to Britain in warmer periods. La Cotte de St Brelade in Jersey is the only site in the British Isles to have produced late Neanderthal fossils. The earliest...

puddling for gold. The abundance of mineral resources in the British Isles was probably one of the reasons for the Roman conquest of Britain. They were able...

Mining in Cornwall and Devon, in the southwest of Britain, is thought to have begun in the early-middle Bronze Age with the exploitation of cassiterite...

was started. In 1958, and again between 1987 and 1994, the site was subject to major archaeological excavations, which uncovered information about prehistoric...

naturally in areas of Ireland. Ireland was the major area of gold working in the Bronze Age British Isles. Irish gold is especially well known from the Irish...

the Isles of Scilly, 2004 Isles of Scilly 2004, imagine..., Isles of Scilly Tourist Board, 2004 Bowley, Rex Lyon (2006). The Scilly guidebook : Isles...

The stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany are a megalithic tradition of monuments consisting of standing stones arranged in rings. These were...

Northern Isles - In Your Backyard The Comparative Archaeology Web - A Spatial Analysis of megalithic Tombs The Council for British Archaeology The Megalith...

The Isle of Man Mining Company, also referred to as the Foxdale Mining Company, was a mining company formed to operate the Foxdale Mines on the Isle of...

of the Hagley Library Digital Archives Coal Mining in the British Isles (Northern Mine Research Society) Online mapping of Coal Mining sites in the British...

Craddock B., 1990. The Experimental Hafting of Stone Mining Hammers. In P. Crew and S. Crew (ed.) Early Mining in the British Isles 58. Maentwrog, Plas...

Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth. Mining is required to obtain most materials that...

by height List of P600 mountains in the British Isles List of Marilyns in the British Isles List of Hewitt mountains in England, Wales and Ireland Harry...

Scilly (24.3%). The village has a history of mining although this industry is no longer active in the area. During the mining boom in Victorian times...

to Etruria mineraria." Mediterranean archaeology 14 (2001): 127–45. Healy, John F. Mining and metallurgy in the Greek and Roman world. London: Thames...

the Prehistoric Dolmens in Sicily, Brazen Head Publishing, Thornam/Norfolk (UK) 2013. Armit, Ian (1996) The archaeology of Skye and the Western Isles...

prospecting Hushing Mining archaeology in British Isles Mining in Roman Britain River Cothi Roman aqueducts Roman engineering Roman mining Roman technology...

served, in Roman times, as a convenient conduit for trade between Gaul (especially Armorica) and the western parts of the British Isles. Archaeological sites...

Britain is an era of British history that spanned from c. 2500–2000 BC until c. 800 BC. Lasting for approximately 1,700 years, it was preceded by the...

In the archaeology of the Stone Age, an industry or technocomplex is a typological classification of stone tools. An industry consists of a number of...

Methods of mining – overview and graphic of coal mining methods Coal Mining in the British Isles (Northern Mine Research Society) National Coal Mining Museum...

specimens were found in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania by Louis Leakey in the 1930s. The name Oldowan was given to the tools after the site in which they were...

of the ISLES OF SCILLY". scilly.gov.uk. Retrieved 21 June 2023. "Isles of Scilly; Cornwall through time". visionofbritain.org.uk. Archived from the original...

The Isle of Wight is rich in historical and archaeological sites, from prehistoric fossil beds with dinosaur remains, to dwellings and artefacts dating...

In archaeology, a blade is a type of stone tool created by striking a long narrow flake from a stone core. This process of reducing the stone and producing...

In prehistoric archaeology, scrapers are unifacial tools thought to have been used for hideworking and woodworking. Many lithic analysts maintain that...

The Dobunni were one of the Iron Age tribes living in the British Isles prior to the Roman conquest of Britain. There are seven known references to the...

erected by the later Neolithic and Bronze Age peoples in the British Isles, parts of Scandinavia and northern France. A well known example is the Carnac stones...