William O'Brien is Professor of Archaeology at University College Cork.
This is the first book to tackle the subject matter on this scale and few are better qualified to have undertaken this task than O'Brien with his longstanding experience in the investigation of copper mines. * Silviane Scharl, Antiquity * delightful illustrations ... O'Brien's text would be an excellent starting point for any volume for north-west Europe that would require chapters on metal mining ... dix points. * Dr Robert Ixer, Current Archaeology * the author has succeeded in producing a vivid and easily readable book * Ronald Schwab, Archaeologia Austriaca * O'Brien succeeds in bringing together a very large and disparate body of literature into a cohesive narrative. * Carleton Jones, Irish Archaeology *