Preserving the Legacy of Historic Metal-Mining Industries in Light of the Water Framework Directive and Future Environmental Change in Mainland Britain: Challenges for the Heritage Community
Preserving the Legacy of Historic Metal-Mining Industries in Light of the Water Framework Directive and Future Environmental Change in Mainland Britain: Challenges for the Heritage Community
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根据水框架指令和英国大陆未来的环境变化保护历史金属采矿业的遗产：遗产社区面临的挑战
DOI：
10.1179/1756750514z.00000000061
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2015
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C. Carey
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作者：
A. Howard;M. Kincey;C. Carey
当代全球金属开采是环境污染的一个来源，但在英国，是我们历史悠久的采矿业在邻近矿场周围以及排干这些矿场的河谷底部的景观中留下了污染遗产。据估计，英国北部一些河流水系中储存的铅和锌的水平相当于今天经济上可行的矿藏的储量，暴露在这些矿藏中可能对人类健康有害。尽管这些矿藏普遍存在并具有重要意义，但文化遗产界忽视了它们，而是偏爱更容易解释的遗迹，如矿山建筑物、矿石采购和加工技术以及制造的最终产品。本文认为，鉴于未来的气候变化和与欧盟水框架指令相关的立法，遗产管理者和工业考古学家必须开始调查这些沉积物，作为他们研究的一部分，并与环境科学和地貌界接触，他们目前正在制定减轻污染和景观修复的战略议程。
Abstract Contemporary global metal mining is a source of environmental pollution, but in Britain it is our historic mining industry that has left a legacy of contamination in the landscape, around both the immediate mine sites as well as within the river valley floors that drain these orefields. It has been estimated that the levels of lead and zinc stored within some northern British river systems represent values comparable to present-day reserves of economically viable ore deposits and exposure to them can be detrimental to human health. Despite the prevalence and significance of these deposits, they have been neglected by the cultural heritage community in favour of more easily interpretable remains such as mine buildings, technologies of ore procurement and processing, and the final products of manufacture. This paper argues that in light of future climate change and legislation associated with the European Union Water Framework Directive, heritage managers and industrial archaeologists have to start investigating these deposits as part of their studies and to engage with the environmental science and geomorphological communities who are, at present, setting the agenda in terms of strategies for pollution mitigation and landscape remediation.