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Dec 6 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
⛏ Today is #MinersDay!

This giant cavern was created by Bronze Age miners extracting huge quantities of copper ore from Great Orme (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿) over 3,500 years ago! A large cavern at Great Orm...
For 200 years, Bronze Age miners extracted a copper bonanza from the Great Orme Mines. It supplied large parts of Britain, and metal from the mine even found its way as far as Germany and Sweden.

📷: Where the metal went Image
After this copper boom, the mine was abandoned for millennia until it was rediscovered in 1987.

📷: The mine today Image
Find out more in the original paper, which used samples of Great Orme copper (obtained in tight spaces) to see how far it spread. It won the 2020 Ben Cullen Prize.

🔗 (🆓) doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2…
📷: Sampling in tight spaces Image

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Dec 7
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📷 Wenceslas trying to escape his brother. Medieval artwork depicting ...
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📷: Budeč, where the mass grave was found just outside the walls of the fort (red arrow). Image
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Nov 23
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📷: Location of the sites
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📸: Modern Near Eastern wildcat
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📸: Roman mosaic of a cat; by Massimo Finizio / CC BY-SA 2.0
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📷: Neolithic trackway found in wetlands Image
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