Abstract
This contribution presents results yielded so far by research activities of the Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, and a bachelor’s degree thesis started in 2014 at the Department of History of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Usti nad Labem in the form of a case study devoted to the decline and archaeologization of the Sauersack/Rolava mining plant (Sokolov district). The plant was established in order to mine and smelt tin ores, as part of the Third Reich military endeavours. Forced labour in the mine was performed by prisoners of war of many European nationalities. After 1945 the mining and smelting activities were not resumed and in February 1946 the Czechoslovak government decided to have the mining equipment dismantled and to close the mine down. In summer 1947, the complex of the mining plant and the adjacent POW camp started to turn into an archaeological site.
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