This unnamed mine lies in the Midlands at the southern edge of Northamptonshire, in an area historically associated with ironstone extraction from the Northampton Sand Formation. Roman exploitation of these ores is attested across the region from at least the 1st through 4th centuries AD, typically as small-to-medium scale workings serving rural smelting sites rather than large state-run operations.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Iron production in the Northamptonshire and Rockingham Forest area formed part of a significant secondary industry supplying the civilian markets of the south Midlands and possibly contributing to wider provincial demand. Unlike the lead mines of the Mendips or the Wealden iron industry, these sites appear to have operated under private or estate-based management rather than direct imperial control.
This unnamed mine lies in the Midlands at the southern edge of Northamptonshire, in an area historically associated with ironstone extraction from the Northampton Sand Formation. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a mine site from the Roman period in Britain.
Unnamed Mine is classified as a Roman mine — a industrial site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
Several Roman sites lie within a short distance, including Unnamed Mine (0.7 km), Roman villa (1.6 km), Roman villa 200m W of Doddington Mill (2.2 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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