La Fodina de Aguas Teñidas (Almonaster la Real, Huelva)

This paper presents the results of archaeological preventive interventions carried out at Aguas Teñidas mine (Almonaster la Real, Huelva). We describe the Roman remains associated with its explotation, a small heaps of copper slag and a large building, and the study of archeological materials associated with these remains (pottery, glass, iron tools, etc.), which allow to state that the operation concentrated on the first half of the first century a.C. In conclusion Aguas Teñidas represent a model mine very common in the mines of the Iberian Pyrite Belt, a mining district in which only large mines of Rio Tinto, Tharsis, Sotiel Coronada, and Aljustrel continued with the metal production in the second half of the first century b.C. and the second century a.D.