El Cerro de San Cristobal Logrosan Extremadura Spain
The archaeometallurgical excavation of a Late Bronze Age tin-mining and metalworking site. First excavation season 1998
Written by Alonso Rodríguez Díaz, Ignacio Pavón Soldevila, Craig Merideth and Jordi Juan i Tresserras
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The published findings of the first season’s excavations at El Cerro de San Cristobal, Logrosan, (some 200 km north of Seville), of a site long known for its mineral/mining importance, and, indeed, still worked for cassiterite until the 1960s. Secondmillennium B.C finds included pottery, tools (hammers, crushers) and an important crucible fragment with its associated smelting/casting remains. The project was undertaken by teams from the University of Extremadura and University College, London

