St.Malo (Brittany)

Machine number: 
194
Country: 
France
Age: 
Roman
Period: 
20-270 AD
Location: 
Roman port
Modern name: 
St.Malo (Brittany)
Type: 
force pump
Use: 
to raise water from the small basin to a higher level of a pipeline or a channel, which led to a point where containers carried on carts were filled.
Machine code: 
Malo-Fp
Location_getLoc: 
Latitude: 48.634275
Longitude: -2.025017

General description: 
a Roman port, just SW of St. Malo, Reginca it seems like the installation was ambitious, may even bronze rather than lead or iron. In conclusion, St. Malo examples are an attempt to produce a novel and prestigious installation, which did not live up to expectations.
General notes / Footnotes: 
20-270 AD the big block, the small block-end of the 2nd or the first half of the 3rd. A.D.
Lat_orig: 
48°38'3.39"N
Long_orig: 
2° 1'30.06"W
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