Roman Mining at Dolaucothi

The Implications of the 1991-3 Excavations near the Carreg Pumsaint

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19136249
AutoresBarry C Burnham (autor de correspondencia)
Año1997
Volumen28
Páginas325-325
Fecha de publicación1997-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBritannia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0068-113X • E-ISSN: 1753-5352
EditorialCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/526771
OpenAlexW2319496859
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17
Referencias citadas2

The mine workings at Dolaucothi have been a focus for considerable archaeological research during the better part of this century. They were first systematically described by Bosanquet and Haverfield in 1917, while their probable Roman date was underlined by the discovery of several well-preserved wooden objects (including a fragment from the rim of a drainage wheel of well-known type) when miners broke into underground stopes beneath the main opencast in the mid-1930s (FIG. I, NO. 4). The most detailed investigation of the site was undertaken in the late 1960s and early 1970s by Jones and Lewis. This saw a detailed survey of the principal surface workings, an examination of the Cothi leat and its associated features, the discovery of the so-called Annell leat, and the excavations within the newly-discovered fort under the village of Pumsaint. This work still forms the basis of our overall understanding of the early phases of exploitation at Dolaucothi, although much of the detail remains unpublished

Archaeology · Excavation · Geography · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · History · Medieval Architecture and Archaeology