Is this any use to you? A recent study of a former stone quarry in the south of England, put to a rather interesting use. The whole study document is on this website:

http://corsham.thehumanjourney.net/



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> From: "Robert Dean" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: the archaeology of underground workings
> Date:         Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:04:40 -0900
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> I think I've exhausted the sources available to me at this point, so I
> thought I'd put this out to the list - in case anyone has any input on the
> subject that might guide me to more info.
> 
> I'm studying historic mining extraction sites in southcentral Alaska, and
> have been trying to find any archaeologists, and other non-mine engineers,
> who have studied underground (or surface hard-rock) workings as part of an
> analytic process (using morphology, measurements, etc of underground
> workings) to understand some research question of an
> archaeological/anthropological nature - processual or interpretive. I have
> found many studies of mining sites, but a great many focus on households,
> and sometimes buildings - whatever the case, it is rarely the mine workings
> that are treated, and I have found very little on underground workings.
> 
> At this point I've found only a few articles dealing with extractive and
> milling workings in general....Not sure what I am missing.
> 
> Are there some CRM or agency reports, which go beyond a descriptive/national
> register approach, that have come out of federal/state mine remediation in
> California, Idaho, Montana, etc. that just haven't shown up in my searches?
> Some regional journals that aren't listed on the search tools I've used?
> 
> Thanks in advance if anyone can help me with this one-
> 
> Max Dean
> University of Alaska, Anchorage Grad Student
> Archaeologist, Chugach NF

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