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Referred to as Kassiterides by the historian Herodotus and assumed to be the British Isles.
Called the Tin Islands because of the tin mines in Cornwall; Kassiterides literally means Tin-Producing; tin was essential for the manufacture of bronze which contains approximately eighty percent copper and twenty percent tin.
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