Your best bet Steve is not to look for mining but associated archaeology
such as settlement sites and transport routes. I am currently looking at the
issue of time depth on lead mining landscapes and trying to unravel 2000
years or more of chronology is not easy.
Nothing is going to scream "i am Roman", although some features can suggest
that workings are probably old.
I would also add to Peter's earlier comments about the assumptions made in
the 19th and indeed 18th centuries about the age of mine workings or indeed
any early industrial site. Any site which is without written record or local
oral tradition, but that looked technologically advanced or well organised
was simply assumed to be Roman. Remember that at the time it was assumed
that we were savages living in mud huts before the Romans arrived and
brought us civilisation! Now we know different.
It is also worth noting the Illustrated London News was the 19th century
equivalent of todays tabloids.
Martin Roe
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