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Mining pick

-100/100

Conjunto Arqueológico de Cástulo

Conjunto Arqueológico de Cástulo
Linares (Jaén), Spain

This mining pick is a piece with a typical typology for work in mines, discovered with many other pieces in a gallery open in Roman times in the Pozo Mirador (El Centenillo) where an Archimedes screw was also found, and shows the importance of the exploitation of mines in the mining area of Castulo in Roman times, as reflected in literary sources.

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  • Title: Mining pick
  • Date Created: -100/100
  • Physical Location: Archaeological Museum of Linares
  • Physical Dimensions: Height: 7.8 cm Length: 29.5 cm Width: 5 cm Weight: 2.53 kg
  • Provenance: El Centenillo
  • Medium: Iron
Conjunto Arqueológico de Cástulo

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