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Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

17. The Power Marriage, Great Orme, Llandudno,

Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

Fat Belly Films

News, Neil Oliver, History, Comment

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week Neil takes us with him to Llandudno to explore deep within the belly of a mountainous sea serpent.


Across the world the powerful marriage of copper and tin was producing a new metal alloy that was propelling the future of our species and driving a new age, the Bronze Age. Around 4000 years ago, at the Great Orme in Clwyd our ancestors started mining copper one of the metals needed to make this new metal alloy. The result, a vast almost industrial operation, helps shine a light on the drive, determination and sophistication of our ancestors - the mine they dug is the largest known prehistoric copper mine in the world.

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0:00.0

The 15 million pound Lotto Super Saturday jackpot must be won this Saturday.

0:04.5

Or thousands of you will win a share of the prize.

0:06.7

But who will it be?

0:07.7

Maybe Raj, watching the racewalk and thinking I could do that.

0:10.6

Well speed walk down the shop and get yourself a ticket.

0:13.1

Lotto will you be next play in store or on app the national lottery account terms

0:17.6

rules and procedures apply players must be 18 or over. This material is so valuable that it's worth dying for and we want as much of it as we can get.

0:34.0

In this podcast we're going deep below ground into the belly of a mountainous sea serpent,

0:47.0

writhing and wriggling through dangerously claustrophobic tunnels,

0:52.4

encountering caverns of cathedral light dimensions, discovering the drive and

1:00.4

determination of our ancient ancestors as they dug the largest

1:06.9

prehistoric copper mine the whole world.

1:25.0

I'm Neil Oliver, and this is my the beginning of the Bronze Age, discovering one of the richest sources of tin in the ancient world.

1:49.0

Where are we now?

1:51.0

Well, today we're off to find the other metal

1:54.8

that the world needed if it was to make bronze.

1:58.6

That's the alloy that was powering the new age,

2:02.2

the bronze age. the Bronze Age.

2:03.4

We're in fluid in North Wales at the Great Orm

2:08.2

in search and copper. There's just no ways around it. That's what you need to make a bronze sword. You've got

2:23.5

your hands on copper and tin in a ratio of about nine times as much copper as you've got tin.

2:28.8

It's about nine to one. So we were talking last time about the mining for tin that was going on in Cornwall

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