Mining in a Medieval Landscape: The Royal Silver Mines of the Tamar Valley - Softcover

Stephen Rippon; Peter Claughton; Chris Smart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0859898288 ISBN 13: 9780859898287

Publisher: University of Exeter Press, 2009

Synopsis

'Mining in a Medieval Landscape' explores the history and archaeology of the late medieval royal silver mines at Bere Ferrers in the Tamar Valley in Devon. It compares their impact on the landscape with less intensive, traditional mining industries. The analysis of maps and documents together with archaeological field-survey work allows the mining landscape to be reconstructed in remarkable detail, including what is probably the first purpose-built mining town in Britain.

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About the Author

Stephen Rippon is Professor of Landscape Archaeology at the University of Exeter. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a Member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists. He makes regular television appearances. Peter Claughton has worked as an economic historian since gaining his doctorate, becoming an expert in his field. He is Conservation Officer of the National Association of Mining History Organizations and an active member of the international industrial heritage committee TICCIH. Chris Smart was responsible for field survey and historic landscape analysis on the Bere Ferrers project. He discovered, and subsequently directed excavations of, the Roman fort at Calstock. He is now a Project Archaeologist with Exeter Archaeology.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Exeter Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0859898288
• ISBN 13: 9780859898287
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 200