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Dolaucothi Gold Mines is a Roman gold extraction site located in Carmarthenshire, Wales, and represents one of the few known sources of precious metal exploitation under Roman rule in Britain. The mines were worked during the Roman occupation, likely from the late first century AD onwards, yielding gold that was valued for coinage and imperial use. The site preserves evidence of open cast and underground mining operations, together with associated water management systems including leats and channels that supplied the hydraulic power necessary for extraction and ore processing. The landscape bears witness to Roman industrial engineering on a substantial scale, making Dolaucothi an exceptional example of Roman economic activity and technological application in the frontier provinces of the empire.
Dolaucothi Gold Mines is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CM208. View the official record →
Dolaucothi Gold Mines is a Roman gold extraction site located in Carmarthenshire, Wales, and represents one of the few known sources of precious metal exploitation under Roman rule in Britain. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CM208.
Dolaucothi Gold Mines dates from the roman period, and is classified as a gold mine. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Dolaucothi Gold Mines is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is CM208.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Dolaucothi Mound (0.3 km), Dolaucothi Roman Aqueduct (0.3 km), Nant Cilgwyn standing stone (3.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Dolaucothi Gold Mines's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Dolaucothi Gold Mines stands on Ashgill Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Ashgill. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.