Speaker: Dr. Christiane Hemker, Project Lead ArchaeoTin. Archaeology in the World Heritage Site – Tin Mining Landscapes
In autumn 2008, a new chapter in Saxon mining archaeology began with the discovery of the high medieval silver mines of Dippoldiswalde. The investigations by the State Office for Archaeology Saxony paint a picture of a well-preserved underground mining landscape, whose sometimes unique findings and complexes of finds have yielded completely new insights in European mining archaeology research. Together with Czech archaeologists, investigations have been conducted throughout the Erzgebirge since 2012 in cross-border research projects using an interdisciplinary set of methods (dendrochronology, historical cartography, remote sensing, archaeobotany, mineralogy, geophysics, etc.), which, in addition to other mining settlements of the 12th/13th century, have led to the discovery of Bronze Age mining relics in a tin deposit in the Eastern Erzgebirge. The silver mines of Dippoldiswalde are rightly part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Ore Mountain/Krušné hory Mining Region.
