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Mining in Roman Britain : ウィキペディア英語版 | Mining in Roman Britain
Mining was one of the most prosperous activities in Roman Britain. Britain was rich in resources such as copper, gold, iron, lead, salt, silver, and tin, materials in high demand in the Roman Empire. The abundance of mineral resources in the British Isles was probably one of the reasons for the Roman conquest of Britain. They were able to use advanced technology to find, develop and extract valuable minerals on a scale unequaled until the Middle ages. ==Lead mining==
Lead was essential to the smooth running of the Roman Empire.〔(''The Romans in Britain: mining'' )〕 It was used for piping for aqueducts and plumbing, pewter, coffins, and gutters for villas, as well as a source of the silver that sometimes occurred in the same mineral deposits. The largest Roman lead mines were located in or near the Rio Tinto (river) in southern Hispania.〔http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2099549 Lead from Carthaginian and Roman Spanish mines isotopically identified in Greenland ice dated from 600 B.C. to 300 A.D. ROSMAN K. J. R.; CHISHOLM W.; HONG S.; CANDELONE J.-P.; BOUTRON C. F.〕〔World Ecological Degradation, page 88. Sing C. Chew. Rowman Altamira, 2001. ISBN 0-7591-0031-4, ISBN 978-0-7591-0031-2 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GM5WOHR55wYC〕In Britannia the largest sources were at Mendip, South West England and especially at Charterhouse. In 49 A.D., six years after the invasion and conquest of Britain, the Romans had the lead mines of Mendip and those of North West England and Wales running at full shift. By 70 A.D., Britain had surpassed Hispania as the leading lead-producing province. The Spanish soon lodged a complaint with Emperor Claudius, who in turn put limits on the amount of lead being produced in Britain. However, these limits were ignored and had the opposite effect on British lead production.〔(Roman Britain: ''Industrial layer map'' )〕
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