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Scrap bronze and ingots on a cape

off Cape Gelidonya, Turkey. about 1200 BC. First cities. Shipwrecks. Known. Free

Known. Scrap bronze and metal ingots lay by a cape.

Off Cape Gelidonya, in south-western Turkey, a ship from about 1200 BC left its cargo near rocky islets. The finds are mostly a metalworker’s tools and materials: scrap bronze tools and weapons, copper ingots, tin ingots, stone polishers, and a stone that may be an anvil. The ship seems to have torn its hull on a rock by the island called Devecitasi Adasi. The page says it most likely belonged to a travelling metalworker from Cyprus, Syria, or Phoenicia.

Archaeologists are still not sure if he was moving home or travelling to work.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/cape-gelidonya-shipwreck-0019702