A Monumental Bronze Age Discovery? - The Dartmoor Podcast Episode Twenty Two

[@LegendaryJew]

From Israel here, thanks for letting us mine your tin/trading 3000 years ago. Cheers!

[@timotht]

Fascinating stuff, definitely needs some more research.

[@richardhodkinson1275]

Great content! More of pete please.

[@TigerLily7.]

Fascinating!

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

Alright, Spock.

[@billdevil-dog9957]

Brilliant video again thank you. So eye opening.

[@willvanhorn]

Bloody love this podcast

[@peterbudd44]

Great video , love the interest ... Thanks.

[@sujiut]

Brilliant insights into a much-loved area. Would love to hear more conversation between you two. Well done.

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

Thank you! Yep - I'm definitely planning on getting Pete back on!

[@aliceneal1220]

So interesting!

[@EnlightenedTurtle]

Very interesting, good work. 👍🏻

[@_zzpza]

This is very interesting, thanks for sharing.

[@MatthewBrookKayaking]

Consider this viewer retained! Great stuff.

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

Ha! Thank you very much!

[@AllotmentFox]

it needs to be dug if you want to prove the different elements are related. Watched this one all the way through. I am going to steal your technique of using yourself three times in a shot and merging them. Using yourself appearing in consecutive doorways as bullet points in your discussion was clever

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

Thank you! I was wondering how you could prove it beyond doubt... If you tested the soil in the 'collection points' would you find a higher concentration of tin than expected? Or would it actually be less than expected!?

[@AllotmentFox]

@@thedartmoorpodcast That's an interesting question. He should try it and see what happens. I wish I knew more about chemistry and geography but I would imagine if you collect something for years in a space it would leech into the soil..

[@rialobran]

The tin ingots found at the mouth of the Erme would indicate not only trade but that tin extraction took place on the moor towards the end of the Bronze Age. And the Nebra Sky Disc found in Germany has tin and gold from Cornwall and is early Bronze Age. The thought that the Cornish maybe doing something that they weren't doing similar on Dartmoor is a bit hard to believe...Devon always copies it's more developed neighbour, except in jam then cream. On a serious note I like this theory, I've noticed the half moon shape in the field before and wondered what it was, putting it down to possibly stones being piled when the field was cleared, but the explanation makes some sense (I don't know the other banks). It may also be the answer I pondered myself just two weeks ago about an area of what appears to be tinning without a recognisable stream, but it does have a large pond at the top of a valley that runs down into it, I even mentioned having seen it flooding down the hill and pointed out the scouring in my last film. This is much more modern than Bronze Age but could help prove the concept was in use in the late 18th century. Although I'd have to 'dig' about to be sure of when this work may have been done. I'm not wholly sold on the boulder quarries and their relation to roads. Remember Roos Tor had to be protected from quarrying and it's a long way from a road, and these large holes do appear a lot on the moor, I wouldn't rule out some aren't boulder quarries and will take a look when I walk the Great Western Reave in a couple of weeks from now. Interesting video and I really hope this is a new discovery.

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

Insightful as always! Yep, I really think he's on to something! If you have the time, Pete does explain the 'boulder quarries' (and everything else) in a bit more detail on the linked video.

[@rialobran]

@@thedartmoorpodcast I'll take a look.

[@HeffalumpHorralump1]

What a great response! I agree about quarries and the relationship to the road, but the closeness of some to the road is what has given rise to the quarry explanation in the first place, so it’s worth pointing out where this also doesn’t make sense. 40 quarries with no signs of splitting is also anomalous. What is most compelling is their 100% correlation with the so called natural features (patterned ground) which has never been included in there interpretation, or even noted in the past. The LiDAR data for White, Roos, and the staple tors is very compelling but has only just been released. Hopefully will get out there myself soon!

[@rialobran]

@@HeffalumpHorralump1 Good luck with Roos Tor, that's an enigma that I've been thinking hard over for years with no success. 🙃

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

Intriguing! What's going on with Roos Tor? I'm sure you said it gave you the heebie-jeebies in one of your videos, but then you didn't explain why...

[@TommyBrookman]

"ah yes, that's a boulder quarry" is the Dartmoor version of the "top men" quote from Indiana Jones. A lazy excuse!!! Also, has anyone looked at other bronze aged slag heaps from across Europe and looked for correlation?

[@HeffalumpHorralump1]

If I’m correct in attributing these mines to the Bronze Age, the problem is that there are no other Bronze Age tin mines extant…..anywhere. It would be a world first. Whether these are similar to any other types of mining from that period, and whether that still exists I do not know and the information isn’t forthcoming. At the gold mine in Dolecauthi, Wales, it is said that evidence of Bronze Age work was found but there’s very little detail readily available as to what that evidence was.

[@HeffalumpHorralump1]

There is the great Orme, but that’s a very different type of mining; Following solid seams into the rock face and digging it out with picks or hammers

[@enckidoofalling2883]

Hahahaha so fake podcast? Lol