The Proceedings of the XVIII International Congress on Geological and Mining Heritage, which had been held in Ponferrada in September 2019, were published in late 2021. At this scientific meeting we presented a weight that had been found during the 2019 excavation fieldwork at the Segovian mining-metallurgical site of Cerro de los Almadenes. This was a centre for the exploitation and transformation of ore, mainly copper, where the Spanish Society for the History of Archaeology (SEHA) has carried out successive excavation seasons since 2009.
Weight found in Cerro de los Almadenes (Otero de Herreros, Segovia) (Barrios and Moncó, 2021: 23, fig. 3).
In this case, the weight is a truncated pyramid-shaped object that was found in a room next to a battery of furnaces. The first approach to the weight was complemented by a review of items known until then with a similar morphology and their relationship with mining contexts. The data examined allowed us to date it to between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD, although it is possible that it remained in use until later dates. The interest of this object lies in the fact that it allows us to recognise the use of a system of weights in the Northern Plateau.
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