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    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...
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    The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape is a World Heritage Site which includes select mining landscapes in Cornwall and West Devon in the south...
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    tin mining in Cornwall and Devon; although no longer of much practical relevance, the stannary law remains part of the law of the United Kingdom and is...
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  • Stannary (redirect from Devon stannaries)
    administrative division established under stannary law in the English counties of Cornwall and Devon to manage the collection of tin coinage, which was the...
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  • districts from the Ore Mountains and evidence of tin mining begins to appear in Brittany, Devon and Cornwall, and in the Iberian Peninsula around 2000...
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    interest shown in Devon and Cornwall's tin resources. (For further discussion of tin mining see the section on the economy below.) In the first four centuries...
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    sources and trade during antiquity Dartmoor tin mining Mining in Cornwall and Devon French, C. N. (1999). "The 'Submerged Forest' palaeosols of Cornwall" (PDF)...
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    then the Cornish language. Cornwall was part of the territory of the tribe of the Dumnonii that included modern-day Devon and parts of Somerset. After a...
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    much of Devon's countryside and coastline as the Dartmoor and Exmoor national parks, and the Jurassic Coast and Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape...
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    Merrivale SSSI is owned by the Duchy of Cornwall. Henry Duke, 1st Baron Merrivale Mining in Cornwall and Devon Portcullis House, 2001, last major contract...
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