Gold Mines at Dolaucothi, Wales
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors:
R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
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Last modified
Feb 10, 2021 09:50 AM
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History
Known now as the "Dolaucothi Gold Mines" or "Ogofau Gold Mine," this was a major gold mining and ore processing site in the Roman period.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/82301
52.0446, -3.9498
- Representative Locations:
- Centerpoint of visible mining area (900 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Unnamed aqueduct(s) at Dolaucothi, Wales connection Gold Mines at Dolaucothi, Wales (unspecified date range)
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- See Further:
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- BAtlas 8 D2
- Burnham, B. C., H. Burnham and A. E. Annels. 2004. Dolaucothi-Pumsaint : survey and excavations at a Roman gold-mining complex, 1987-1999. Oxford: Oxbow.
- Coflein Monument 402260
- Jones 1990 180-84
- National Trust, Dolaucothi Gold Mines
- PECS (Perseus), DOLAUCOTHI N. Carmarthenshire, Wales.
- Wikipedia (English) Dolaucothi Gold Mines
- Wilson, A. 2006. "Review of Dolaucothi-Pumsaint: Survey and Excavations at a Roman Gold-Mining Complex 1987-1999 by B. Bumham, H. Bumham." Britannia 37:497-9.
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 D2
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: E Louentinon?, at Dolaucothi
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Gold Mines at Dolaucothi, Wales: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/82301> [accessed: 14 November 2024]
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