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| Title: | Provenancing iron ore from the Bristol Channel Orefield: the cargo of the Medieval Magor Pill Boat |
| Contributor: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Author: | T Imothy Gary R. Thomas P. Young |
| Description: | Abstract " A boat (built c. 1240) foundered with a cargo including iron ore, close to the settlement of Abergwaitha, seaward of the modern Magor Pill (Gwent). Exca-vation in 1995 recovered 180 kg of mixed powder and lump ores. A source within the Bristol Channel Orefield mayreadily be determined from the mineralogy and texture of the lump ores. Provenancing within the orefield is more problematic. Various lines of evidence constrain the likely source of the ore as Glamorgan; including textural evidence that he ore was emplaced within substantial cavernous porosity, petrological evidence that the ore was within the Carboniferous lime-stone, and the presence of quartz. This raises the intriguing question f why a cargo of ore was apparently travelling towards the major ore sources in the Forest of Dean. An explanation is suggested by the likely date for the cargo f 1250-1280, during the northward expansion of the de Clare Lordship of Glamor-gan, into Meisgyn (including most orebodies west of the Taft Valley) in 1246, and Is Caiach (including those east of theTaffValley) in 1267. The de Clares are known to have undertaken large-scale iron smelting in Trelech (Gwent) in he period |
| URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/74085 |
| Other Identifier: | http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/165/1/103.full.pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1029.889 |
| AMAD ID: | 568060 |
| Appears in Collections: | BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) General history of Europe |
