3,000-year-old shipwreck shows European trade was thriving in Bronze Age
The vessel, carrying copper and tin ingots used to make weapons and jewellery, sank off the coast near Salcombe in Devon and is thought to date from 900BC. But it was only last year that the South West Maritime Archaeological Group, a team of amateur archaeologists, brought its cargo to the surface. NYT: On Crete, New Evidence of Very Ancient Mariners.





