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Within Britain, the majority of recorded Neolithic and Bronze Age rock art comes from the northern part of the island. [3] [4] Cup-and-ring marks are particularly common in this area. [5] Cup-and-ring marks are usually attributed to the Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages, [6] while attempts at building a relative chronology have been tried in ...
Some five or six centuries later, in section XIV.vi.11 of his encyclopedic Etymologies, Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636) repeated much the same information: "Chryse and Argyre are islands situated in the Indian Ocean, so rich in metal that many people maintain these islands have a surface of gold and silver; whence their names are derived."
Ictis, or Iktin, is or was an island described as a tin trading centre in the Bibliotheca historica of the Sicilian-Greek historian Diodorus Siculus, writing in the first century BC. While Ictis is widely accepted to have been an island somewhere off the southern coast of what is now England, scholars continue to debate its precise location.
Herodotus (430 BC) had only vaguely heard of the Cassiterides, "from which we are said to have our tin", but did not discount the islands as legendary. [2] Later writers—Posidonius, Diodorus Siculus, [3] Strabo [4] and others—call them smallish islands off ("some way off," Strabo says) the northwest coast of the Iberian Peninsula, which contained tin mines or, according to Strabo, tin and ...
Archaeologists in each island give regular talks on their work and summer digs in the islands usually require helpers and volunteers. Interest in the archaeology of the islands is first recorded in the 16th century. By the 18th century articles were being published in magazines with engravings explaining interesting historic sites. [3]: 24–5
The Isle of Wight exhibits considerable geological variety in a relatively small area, and has attracted interest from geologists from the early days of the science up until the present. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Island has been described as "one of the most significant of the classic areas of British geology" [ 4 ] and "a 'mecca' for geological ...
[Note 6] 2 Ellsay 2 Elsay Ailsay Ailsa Craig: 3 Aran 3 Arran Arran Arran: 4 Flada 4 Flada Flada Pladda: With lenition, Plada(igh) yields f- in Gaelic. [52] 5 Molass 5 Molass Molas Holy Isle: Modern Gaelic is Eilean MoLaise. [53] 6 Buit 6 Buitt Isle of Bute Bute: 7 Inismerog 7 Inche Mernoche Isle Mernoca Inchmarnock: 8 Cumbray 8 Cumbra Great ...
[5] [6] They also established vast maritime trading networks, among which is the Neolithic precursor to what would become the Maritime Silk Road. [7] The simplest form of all ancestral Austronesian boats had five parts. The bottom part consists of a single piece of hollowed-out log.