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When the Rio Tinto Company Limited (hereafter normally abbreviated as RTC) started its operations in 1873, there must have been some evidence of mining prior to entry of the Romans. Unfortunately, little notice seems to have been taken of such evidence, the staff being fully involved in the exciting new activities, and it was probably obliterated. In any case interest in pre-history was not at all common in the 1870s.
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Salkield, L.U. (1987). The Roman period. In: Cahalan, M.J. (eds) A technical history of the Rio Tinto mines: some notes on exploitation from pre-Phoenician times to the 1950s. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3377-4_3
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