Abstract
THE observant traveller who crosses the Mendip Hills cannot fail to notice the broken ground, so-called ‘grubby or gruffy ground’, which his map tells him represents the scene of ancient lead workings. Efforts to acquire fuller knowledge of these met with only partial success until the appearance of Mr. Gough's book, which obviously fills a definite want. The Mendip lead mines date from at least the second century B.C.; they have had a lengthy history, not without many vicissitudes. A good deal of the mining followed veins running near the surface, working either shallow trenches a few feet deep or small pits close to one another running in lines across the fields. The principal lead ore was galena.
The Mines of Mendip.
J. W. Gough. Pp. x + 269. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1930.) 15s. net.
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ARMSTRONG, E. The Mines of Mendip . Nature 126, 345–346 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126345a0
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