Selected sites of archaeometallurgical interest in Britain

Prehistoric

• copper mines: Alderley Edge, Cheshire
• copper mines: Great Orme, Llandudno
• copper mines: Parys Mountain, Anglesey

Roman

• gold mines: Dolaucothi, Dyfed
• lead mines: Charterhouse-on-Mendip, Somerset
• road metalled with iron slag: Holtye, East Sussex
• iron working site: Beauport Park, East Sussex
• iron mine: Lydney, Gloucestershire
• iron smithing hearth in connection with workshop: Orton Longueville, Cambridgeshire (Hunts.)

Industrial archaeology

• East Carlton Iron and Steel Heritage Centre, nr. Corby, Northamptonshire
• Moira Furnace, Moira nr. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire
• The Bell Foundry Museum, Loughborough, Leicestershire
• Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Telford, Shropshire
• Bonawe Early Blast Furnace & Nature Trail, Taynuilt, Argyll
• Dartmoor National Park

Multiperiod

• Wakerley Great Wood, Northants.: ironstone mining pits and limestone quarry
• Dean Heritage Centre

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