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Craddock (1978) and Craddock et al. (1980) surveyed the evidences of early brass artefacts in the West. The earliest brass artefacts known come from the excavations at the Gordion Tomb in Phrygia, dating from the eighth and seventh century BC onwards. These came after the Lothal and Atrañjikhera traditions. From the seventh century BC the Greeks commented upon brass or oreichalkos, but always as an expensive, exotic metal not produced in Greece. There was no zinc in the early Greek bronzes. Etruscan bronze of the fifth century BC contained 11 per cent zinc.