Reliance on CIL vii 1201 and 1202 has made it customary to quote the year A.D. 49 as a firm date by which Roman lead production had already been fully established on the Mendips. But of these two items one is highly doubtful, while the second on fresh scrutiny proves to involve a misreading of the inscriptions that it carries: neither can justify the confidence that has been placed in it for precise dating, as the following comments seek to show.
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