Trying to write blog posts about how common things were made really brings home how heavily both the sources and the modern scholarship are focused on prestige goods. Tons on silver and gold mining. Iron mining? Almost nothing.
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Diagrams and descriptions of deep, complex silver-mines and gold-mines with multiple shafts, ventilation, drainage, galleries? Tons. Diagrams of opencast iron pit mines? Descriptions in the sources? Lot harder to find!
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(To be clear, opencast mines from the pre-modern period. I am aware it is very easy to find pictures of modern mines)
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How important was bog iron?
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Depends on the period and the level of production. Early iron age Europe, or early middle ages? Seems to be a pretty decent fraction of the total iron production. Roman period or later Middle Ages? Far less important, as bog iron gets swamped by increased iron mining.
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