assemblage 4 -- An Assessment of Recent Field Work on the Great Orme.

Endnotes
1. For membership details, write to David Edwards (secretary), 24 Maelgwyn Rd, Llandudno, North Wales. (back to text)

2. I have not seen a copy of this report. The following details concerning its contents and the role of the Management Committee are based on a telephone conversation with Tom Gravett, Principal Coutryside Officer for Conwy County Borough Council. I am extremely grateful for his taking the time to talk to me and any comments on the structure, content and implementation of the report are of course entirely my own. (back to text)

3. I would like to thank all the people involved in work on the Orme who have taken the time to help me with my research to date: everybody at Great Orme mines, Nigel Bannerman and family (thanks for feeding me!), Kate Geary at GAT, David Jenkins and Andy Owen at the University of Wales, Bangor, Jo Jones and Andy Lewis. Thanks also to Conwy County Borough Council for granting Dr Barbara Ottaway permission to dig on the Orme in 1996. (back to text)

4 An example of this duplication of work (and effort!) is the recent series of surveys carried out at Ffynnon Galchog: a detailed topographic survey of the area is recorded in Jones (1994); the same area was, however, subsequently re-surveyed by Jo Jones, simply because she was unaware of the existence of the previous (unpublished) survey (J. Jones, pers. comm.) (back to text)

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About the author
Emma Wager is in the second year of a PhD at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests include the social and practical context of prehistoric copper mining on the Great Orme, the nature of life during the Bronze Age and approaches to the study of prehistoric technology.

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