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Roman gold mining site of Laias

Cenlle, Ribeiro, Ourense

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Roman gold mining site of Laias

Curiosity · Cenlle, Ribeiro, Ourense

Image of Cenlle, not of the place itself.

In the parish of Laias there survive remains, badly damaged by the motorway, of gold mining from Roman times or earlier, worked with the arrugia and ruina montium techniques described by Pliny the Elder.

Photo: Lansbricae (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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