McWhirr, A. (1988). The Roman Swithland Slate Industry. Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society 62. Vol 62, Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society. pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.5284/1107641. Cite this via datacite
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The Roman Swithland Slate Industry | ||||
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Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society 62 | ||||
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Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society | ||||
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1 - 8 | ||||
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Swithland slate roofs and tombstones are a familiar sight in Leicestershire today even though extraction of the slate ceased during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. In the two hundred years before that date slate had been extensively quarried and used for many different purposes besides roofs and tombstones including clockfaces, sundials, milestones, cheese presses, fireplaces and salting troughs. Despite the importance of Swithland Slate to the economy of the county between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, a definitive account of the industry and its demise has yet to be written and there is remarkably little in print about its use in Roman times. Several writers have suggested that the Swithland slate industry was more important to the economy of the east Midlands in Roman times than had traditionally been thought, but no detailed analysis has been undertaken to support these statements. The purpose of this paper is to provide the evidence for that assertion | ||||
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1988 | ||||
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08 Jun 2023 |
