I am (still) in the process of researching the 1820-1840s
Swaledale/Arkengarthdale lead miner emigration to the Dubuque, Iowa
area. As part of a broad physical description of properties associated
with the Dubuque mines, I am attempting to compare local prospecting and
extraction techniques with those of late-18th/early-19th century Europe
and Yorkshire. I currently have zero data on European lead prospecting
methods.
Can anyone recommend primary research sources (English or otherwise)
that would describe such methods and their manifestation on the ground
surface?
The idea is that I MAY be able to determine which prospecting pits in
the Catfish Creek watershed are associated with Julien Dubuque's initial
occupation vs. those of the later English immigrants.
There has been precious little significance attributed to the
geological/geographical patterning of prospecting pits on the landscape
here (unjustifiably, I believe), and any information which could bolster
a spectrum of research recommendations would be of great help.
Daniel R. Pratt
Architectural Historian/Archaeologist
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