November 1970
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The Journal of Roman Studies
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November 1970
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The Journal of Roman Studies
The Augustan conquest of the Asturias was resisted with all the tenacity native to that region, but under the combined pressure of no less than three legions, this wild and mountainous area of North-Western Spain finally capitulated in c. 25 B.C. On the Roman side the prospect of mineral exploitation was a major motive that demanded at times the presence of both Augustus and Agrippa. The literary references to the Spanish mining-projects that followed the conquest do not specify particular sites, but indicate instead general areas where mining was initiated. Fortunately, however, the gold-rushes of the last century in California and elsewhere reawakened interest in other areas of the world, and particularly this region of Spain, partly as a result of the legendary stories of Roman successes. The prospectors found many traces of those efforts, although in the main unsuccessful themselves. Part at least of what they saw was recorded in the current mining papers and journals of that period, and we are indebted to the work of O. Davies for abstracting and summarizing much of this information, which would otherwise be difficult to assimilate, the sources now being unobtainable or very inaccessible. We may be sure that the twenty or so mines that he noted are an underestimate, and that many more await discovery. Although Davies' list was made over thirty years ago, none of the sites have since been surveyed in any detail and no photographic record exists.
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... The first works on Roman gold mining in the Northwest Iberia that a network through which water flowed by gravity to the main mining areas during man times [6]. The first works on Roman gold mining in the Northwest Iberia that m aged to decipher the magnitude of this extraordinary hydraulic work were undertaken Lewis and Jones [7] and Jones and Bird [8]. These authors identified some remains of intricate mining complex, such as the coined Montefurados (i.e., Montefurado tunnel) other unique hydraulic elements of Roman mining, such as the kilometre-long networ canals directed to Las Médulas mine, which they detailed in its final section, as well set of water reservoirs associated with mining activities. ...
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November 1970
The Journal of Roman Studies
... Moreover, the exposed layers yielded many fragments of artefacts, e.g., faience pieces from the Ptolemaic Period, including relief decorated bowls. In 1969In and 1979In -1984, the excavations were conducted by Ruszczyc [26] in the frame of the Polish-Coptic Mission. At that time, fragments of constructions belonging to a bath complex, kilns-limekilns and remains of sacral constructions were recognised. ...
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... Lode and placer gold deposits have long been known in the Iberian Massif (Spain) (e.g. Lewis and Jones, 1970;Spiering et al., 2000;Vázquez-Calvo et al., 2013;Barrios, 2014). In particular, the Southern part of the Iberian Massif presents abundant evidence of gold deposits, including the occurrence of large gold nuggets (218 g). ...
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November 1970
The Journal of Roman Studies