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  No Alex. Although bronze was imported as you say, Britain certainly had prehistoric metal mines. Copper mines dating to a few hundred years earlier than our Bronze Age Boat have been identified in Wales, at Cwmtstryth, an opencast mine at The Great Orme and elsewhere. Copper was imported from Ireland in the Bronze Age and production continued through the Iron Age in the Peak District and the Mendips. The Romans constructed a large and complex mining system at Dolacothi in Wales to extract gold.
  
  Apologies to disappoint, but The Dover Bronze Age Boat is not the oldest boat known from Britain. Three sewn plank-built boats have been recovered from Ferriby in Yorkshire that all date from a couple of hundred years earlier although none were as elaborate in construction as the Dover boat. It is speculated that these boats were capable of sea-travel and may well have been used to import amber, jet and metals from the Baltic.
  
  Don't forget the Dover boat represented a long tradition of seafaring - it was clearly built by people who had a long history of constructing in that style.

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