Bronze is made of around 90% copper and 10% tin (with some variations through the Bronze Age. However, at the start of the Bronze Age (sometimes known as the Beaker Period, Chalcolithic or Copper Age), people made metal tools from copper. To produce metal people mined ore, crushed it, sorted it then smelted it in a furnace using charcoal. There would have been a large network of people involved with the copper mining process in places like the Great Orme (north Wales), Alderley Edge (Cheshire) and Ross Island (Ireland).
Mixture of ore supplied in a bag.
