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13-525: During the Iron Age (50 BC - 1400 AD) and before the arrival of the Portuguese, the island was densely settled. The most important evidence of human occupation comes from the area of Nandá, near the eastern coast, where dozens of prehistoric burials have been excavated. These burials belong to two different periods: Early Iron Age (50 BC - 450 AD) and Middle Iron Age (1000-1150 AD). During the first period,

26-733: A finished bar, usually shaped with a small socket at one end, and consume 100 kg (220 lb) of charcoal. Iron spits were used as money in Greece before silver currency. Sparta deliberately used iron currency to make amassing wealth unwieldy, and remained on an iron currency standard all through Greece's golden age. Julius Caesar 's Gallic Wars , mentions iron currency in Britain. "For money they use bronze or gold coins, or iron bars of fixed weights." — Julius Caesar, 54 BC Iron hoes circulated as money in India, Africa, and Indochina, and were

39-465: Is disputed with Gabon because of the perceived value of the oil. In February 2003, Gabonese Defence Minister Ali-Ben Bongo Ondimba visited the islands and re-stated Gabon's claim to them. [REDACTED] Media related to Corisco at Wikimedia Commons Iron currency Iron currency bars are objects used by Iron Age people to exchange goods. The bars were expensive objects, as it would take 25 man-days to produce 1 kg (2.2 lb) of

52-554: The 1870s. In general, the Spanish paid little attention to Corisco. In the early part of the 20th century it was part of the administration of Elobey, Annobon, and Corisco , and postage stamps were issued under that name. It became an integral part of Equatorial Guinea upon independence. Corisco and the surrounding waters of Corisco Bay have become of interest in recent years for their oil prospects. A consortium of Elf Aquitaine and Petrogab began prospecting in 1981. The area

65-526: The Europeans. The island was later acquired by Spain in 1843, as a result of an arrangement made by Juan José Lerena y Barry with Benga king Bonkoro I . Bonkoro I died in 1846 and was succeeded by his son Bonkoro II , but due to rivalries on the island, Bonkoro II moved to São Tomé , and Munga I ruled in Corisco 1848 to 1858, his son Munga II taking over, and meeting the explorer Manuel Iradier in

78-517: The French Congo, iron bars, shovels, hoes, blades, and iron double bells played the role of currency. In mid-nineteenth-century Nigeria, a slave cost 40 iron hoes. In 1824, 394 currency bars were found, 1.2m below the surface, at a re-used camp on Meon Hill, Mickleton, Gloucestershire . In 1860, currency bars were discovered at Salmonsbury Camp , Bourton-on-the-Water . In 1942, Iron currency bars were found around Llyn Cerrig Bach and

91-535: The Mino Estuary in 1471, they noted that the islands in the area were mainly unpopulated. They named Corisco after 'lightning', due to the gales they experienced around the island. After more than three centuries of abandonment, when it was sporadically visited by European sailors, Corisco was settled by the Benga people . They arrived during the second half of the 18th century attracted by the prospects of trade with

104-468: The hotel is a memorial fountain by the Victorian architect William Burges . The Church of St Lawrence is an Anglican parish church. It contains a memorial to Utrecia Smith, the daughter of a curate of Mickleton whose father was also a schoolmaster. Utrecia had been the fiancée of the writer Richard Graves (who broke off their engagement); she died in 1744 aged 30. At the heart of village activities

117-481: The islanders deposited bundles of human bones and iron implements (axes, bracelets, spears, spoons, iron currency ) in shallow pits dug in the sand. During the second period, tombs have been documented where the corpses (not preserved) lay surrounded by pots, probably containing food and alcoholic beverages. The deceased were interred with their adornments (collars, bracelets and anklets) and a few personal possessions (knives and adzes). When Portuguese sailors arrived in

130-526: The north of the village. Meon Hill is said to have inspired Tolkien 's ' Weathertop ' from The Lord of the Rings According to legend, Meon Hill was formed by the Devil. He intended to throw a clod of earth at Evesham Abbey but missed, and the earth formed the hill. Mickleton has two old pubs , King's Arms and Butcher's Arms, and a hotel, Three Ways House Hotel . Sited on a green in front of

143-516: The parish was 1,677 at the 2011 Census . The village lies at the western edge of the Cotswold escarpment in the Vale of Evesham . Mickleton is noted for its market gardening and vegetable growing Young plants , seed plugs, apples , cauliflowers and asparagus , or gras , are grown locally. Meon Hill , the scene of the so-called ' witchcraft ' murder of Charles Walton in 1945, lies to

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156-588: The smallest monetary unit of the Bahnar people . During the nineteenth century, iron bars circulated as money in the Congo. During the nineteenth century, iron hoes circulated in the remote areas of Sudan. The western Uganda Chiga used hoes as their unit of account without using of them as a medium of exchange or store of value. In Portuguese East Africa a hoe standard replaced a cattle standard, and some hoes circulated only as currency and were never used agriculturally. In

169-660: The surrounding peat bog in Wales. Mickleton, Gloucestershire Mickleton is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire , England. The village is the northernmost settlement in Gloucestershire, lying close to the borders with Worcestershire and Warwickshire , 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Chipping Campden , 8 miles (13 km) east of Evesham and 8 miles (13 km) south of Stratford-upon-Avon . The population of

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