Many thanks for the message ( that now reads thanks for the messages);
apologies for slow reply, I've been away at various archaeological trust
offices, digging. I'm beginning to think that researching is an "extractive
industry" like metal mining.
Yes, they are relevant and will be duly chased up.
This Roman lead mining is like a polo mint, lots of material around the
edges but nothing in the middle - no actual tangible mines that everyone can
agree on.
Thanks
Steve
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From: "Peter Claughton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: research Roman lead mines Wales
> >I am researching Roman lead (and silver) mining and processing in Wales (
> AD 40 - 400)
>
> Steve,
>
> One source you may not have seen, and not strictly Welsh in the modern
> sense, is Bayley, J. and Eckstein, K., Metalworking debris from
Pentrehyling
> Fort, Brompton, Shropshire, Ancient Monuments Laboratory Report 13/98
(1998).
>
> Although the source of the metal was probably the western mines of the
> Shropshire field, it does provide an example of the industrial scale of
> silver recovery from lead deposits in the Roman occupation period. The
size
> of the cupels, at c. 0.5 metre diameter is comparible with the size
> calculated for the refining hearths used in the Devon silver mines of the
> late medieval period.
>
> As to a list of Roman lead pigs - I use that in Tylecote, R. F. The
> Prehistory of Metallurgy in the British Isles, (1986), pp. 61-71, tables
38
> and 39, but I doubt if it is a definitive list these days.
>
> Peter
>
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