Moving metals or indigenous mining? Provenancing Scandinavian Bronze Age artefacts by lead isotopes and trace elements

► A contribution to the ongoing debate on local Cu-mining in Bronze Age Scandinavia. ► The copper import paradigm still stands for the indigenous Swedish bronze casting. ► Trace element and lead isotope analyses have, so far, concluded an import of copper. ► Observed variations in metal supply are related to Bronze Age chronology. ► Scandinavia as a part of the maritime exchange systems during the Bronze Age.