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The complex at Tintagel, from where British tin exports took place, gets the archeological treatment in this Nova episode: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/kin

• trestenhortz 6y ago
  Presumably the name “TINtagel” relates to tin somehow?
  • thaumasiotes 6y ago
    Why? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintagel#Toponymy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintagel#Toponymy doesn't even mention that as a theory.
  • smogcutter 6y ago
    I was curious so dug a little. A quick google surprisingly doesn’t really turn up reliable looking sources, but it seems like the answer is no. Most likely either Cornish or Norman French in origin, unrelated to German-derived “tin”.
  • PeterWhittaker 6y ago
    It seems not. Tintagel apparently means “fort by the neck of the land” ([1]), while the etymology of tin seems to be from a proto-Germanic word for the metal. [1] https://oldsomerset2.wordpress.com/2016/01/23/whats-in-a-name-tintagel/ https://oldsomerset2.wordpress.com/2016/01/23/whats-in-a-nam... [2] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/tin https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/tin
  • blodorn 6y ago
    A happy little accident.
• doctorfoo 6y ago
  Tintagel hackers represent! *tumbleweed