The Greek Trade-Routes To Britain

v » 12 )-It is quite possible, as we shall see hereafter, that tin trade with the Continent had died out in the time • *-a2Sa >", and that it was not until after the Roman con gest, in the middle of the following century, that the mines 0 .Cor nwall were again developed.To the list of imports given by Strabo we may add copper, on the authority of yssax (are utuntur importato, v, I2> Diodorus Siculus 2 2) gives an account of the tin mining in Cornwall, Jhich is probably based on the account of the Stoic Posid °nius, who travelled in Britain about B.C. 90: •The inhabitants of that part of Britain which is ^ed Belerion are very fond of strangers, and, from .e, r intercourse with foreign merchants, are civilised !n their manner of life.They prepare the tin, workw j> very carefully the earth in which it is produced.e ground is rocky, but it contains earthy veins, produce of which is ground down, smelted, and Purified.They beat the metal into masses, shaped like ^tragali,!and carry it to a certain island lying off Britain ^ied Ictis.During the ebb of the tide the intervening 8

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