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Roman Gold from Tresminas (Portugal)
Regula Wahl-Clerici
2020
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The reconstruction of Roman mining activities in a primary deposit during the1st and 2nd centuries AD has been made possible thanks to the excellent preservation of ancient mining and the prerequisite accompanying industries in the territorium metallorum Tresminas / Jales. Decades of on-site research and careful documentation of the monuments and traces of mining have faciliated the understanding of the work processes presented in this volume: prospection, excavation and processing.Within this framework, prospecting not only served the discovery of deposits as reported by ancient sources, but it accompanied the miners’ daily work and was an essential element of the mining process.The mining itself has left traces that enable us to both follow and understand the progress of mining over time. The planning and execution that become visible as a result of this allow us to infer a central organisation. The fantastic extensive high galleries of Tresminas, whose dimensions and state of preservation still impress visitors and researchers today are a further example of this. Finds that were abandoned,never completed or destroyed in ancient times are particularly helpful in understanding the mining process.The complex processing of the gold-bearing ores has left behind in Tresminas around 1 000 stamp mills, countless rock-grinding mills and enormous ore washing structures.In addition, the water management system associated with mining and settlementis discussed. An important part of the industrial complex was also the local stone quarrying for the production of stamp mills, rock-grinding and grain mills.A summary of the historical context of the territorium metallorum Tresminas / Jalesis presented in the introduction.
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Keywords
- Gold
- Mining
- prospection
- Roman
- Treatment
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DOI: 10.19218/3906897462Editions