Re: [TIED] Re: The Tin Islands.

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From: John Croft

To: cybalist@egroups.com

Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 8:00 AM

Subject: [TIED] Re: The Tin Islands.

John,

 

Have you got any reference for these Tin Roads? It's fascinating stuff. I always assumed, it seems yoo hastily, that Phoenician/Carthaginian tin traders preferred sea routes between the Mediterranean and the Tin Islands. I only know Pytheas' report third hand; does it give any detailed geographical information about the initial part of his journey?

 

Piotr

 

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Another "Tin Road" ran from the Scilly Isles to Amorica, south to
Burdigala, up along the Garonne and across to Marsala (Marseilles)
and thence East across the Mediterranean.  This was certainly the
route that Pytheas took on his travels.  This seems to be the route
taken by Egyptian faience beads from the eastern Mediterranean to the
Salisbury plain and points west and north, during the so
called "Bronze Age".