Ah, those archeologists! They’ve discovered an ancient gold route between Southwest Britain and Ireland.

They were measuring the chemical composition of some early Irish gold artifacts and learned that the gold actually originated in Cornwall, that piece of land at the southwestern tip of England. It’s famous for its mining, so I am not surprised some gold was mined there. It’s interesting that it would be mined and shipped north across the Celtic Sea to be worked into artifacts, since there were gold deposits aplenty in Ireland at the time. There’s speculation that coming from afar it had “exotic” value to the people living in Ireland then.

The time? Oh, yeah. This was early Bronze Age, about 2500 B.C.E.