scholarly journals The first excavations at Dampier (Western Australia), and their place in Australian archaeology (with addendum on radiocarbon dating of Skew Valley midden). In Archaeology and Petroglyphs of Dampier (Western Australia), an Archaeological Investigation of Skew Valley and Gum Tree Valley, ed. Graeme K. Ward and Ken Mulvaney, chapter 2 (part II)

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 163-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Lorblanchet ◽  
Rhys Jones
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Archaeological Investigation ◽  
Australian Archaeology

An Archaeological Investigation of Early Mineworkings on Copa Hill, Cwmystwyth: New Evidence for Prehistoric Mining

1988 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 329-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Timberlake ◽  
Roy Switsur
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Archaeological Investigation ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
Mine Workings ◽  
Prehistoric Mining ◽  
The Hill ◽  
New Evidence

In September 1986 a small excavation was done by S. T. to investigate an area of primitive-style mine-workings on Copa Hill, Cwmystwyth, Dyfed (SN816756). A small opencast and several overgrown tips associated with pebble hammers occur where the copper-rich Comet Lode outcrops on the brow of the hill. Copa Hill is within an area of seventeenth–twentieth-century lead-mine workings which extend for 1.2 km along the N side of the Ystwyth Valley (fig. 1). Radiocarbon dating of charcoal from within one of the tips suggests that mining commenced in the middle Bronze Age.

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