Great Orme’s golden age of European trade

A Bronze Age copper mine in North Wales is likely to have been the site of Britain’s first mining boom, with a ‘golden age’ of production between c.1600 and 1400 BC seeing its copper travel as far as Brittany and the Baltic, new research suggests.
Great Orme Bronze Age mining site, above the town of Llandudno[Image: © Great Orme Mine Ltd]The Great Orme is one of Europe’s largest copper mines, but it was previously thought that its size was the result of small-scale s