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This book explores an industry that was of profound importance both in terms of the local economy and the history of mining nationally, but is long forgotten: the late medieval royal silver mines at Bere Ferrers in the Tamar Valley.

The Bere Ferrers silver mines employed up to 400 men, mining on a scale and at depths not previously possible, and changed forever the way that mining was carried out in medieval Britain.






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

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Hardback by Prof. Steve Rippon , Dr. Peter Claughton

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    Publisher: University of Exeter Press
    Publication Date: 30/07/2009
    ISBN13: 9780859898270, 978-0859898270
    ISBN10: 085989827X

    Number of Pages: 222

    Non Fiction , History

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    This book explores an industry that was of profound importance both in terms of the local economy and the history of mining nationally, but is long forgotten: the late medieval royal silver mines at Bere Ferrers in the Tamar Valley.

    The Bere Ferrers silver mines employed up to 400 men, mining on a scale and at depths not previously possible, and changed forever the way that mining was carried out in medieval Britain.






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