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Perhaps. Weren't they already known at that time though?

>"Britain was known to the Classical world; the Greeks, Phoenicians and Carthaginians traded for Cornish tin in the 4th century BC." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Britain



That desn't fit with the idea that you don't go past the Pillars of Hercules though.


Whose idea is that?




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