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Dolaucothi Gold Mines

Pumsaint, Carmarthenshire

The only known Roman gold mine in Britain.

The Romans dug for gold at Dolaucothi, using aqueducts to bring water to wash away earth and expose the gold-bearing rock. It is the only Roman gold mine known in Britain.

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When
Roman onwards
Where
52.0400, -3.9500
Group
Roman Britain

Visiting

National Trust, with underground tours in season.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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