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About the Author : Martin Roe
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After visiting Swaledale at the age
of twelve and seeing the Surrender and Old Gang Smelt Mills I became
fascinated by the remains of lead mining. Later I began exploring the
area further and wanted to know more about what I had seen on my walks.
This led me to published information and when I found that lacking,
to archive sources, in many cases the original records of the mines.
Since then I have devoted many hours to further research. I have been
a member of several mining history groups and have over 20 years experience
of underground exploration.
In 1997 I realised that I knew a lot about lead mining but needed a qualification to be a real expert. In July 2000, I graduated from the University of Leicester with a first class BSc in Archaeology. In addition my work on Cononley Lead Mine was nominated for several awards. I successfully won Leicester University's Garner Prize for the best dissertation combining arts and science, an Association for Industrial Archaeology Fieldwork Award and also an award from the Society of Post Medieval Archaeology. After completing an MSc in Archaeological Prospection at the University of Bradford I have conducted a PhD study of the components of lead mining landscapes in the Yorkshire Dales. I am now a freelance archaeologist with experience of recording and interpreting a wide variety of sites from the prehistoric to the modern. |
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