Machine number:
229
Country:
Age:
Period:
Location:
Modern name:
Dolaucothi (Wales)
Machine code:
Dolaucothi
Location_getLoc:
Latitude: 52.042633
Longitude: -3.952475
General description:
Tread-wheel with compartmented rim
date:late first or early second century
only one piece of a board which was part of the rim was recovered
a gold mine
show similarity with its design to Spanish and Portuguese wheels.
water-power may have been used for the ore-crushing machinery on the surface at Dolaucothi
General notes / Footnotes:
two major Roman aqueduct , one of which was 11 km long and several smaller ones. (provide water for hydraulic erosion of the overburden in opencast mining. )
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/dolaucothi-gold-mines/
Lat_orig:
52° 2'33.48"N
Long_orig:
3°57'8.91"W