Neolithic and/or Bronze Age mines: Excavating the CA archive

Since CA 428, my columns have focused on prehistoric Britain, and while researching these I read about a series of mines dating to the Neolithic and/or Bronze Age. This is a fascinating rabbit-hole to climb into, and next month I will follow it with an exploration of medieval and modern mines. For those of you interested in this subject, there have been wider surveys of early mining in CA 117 (November 1989), CA 352 (July 2019), and CA 384 (March 2022); of metallurgy in CA 99 (February 1986) and CA 335 (February 2018); and of flint mining in CA 175 (August 2001) and CA 178 (March 2002). Alderley Edge, Cheshire Alderley Edge, just to the north-west of Macclesfield, is nowadays best know