>OK, so does anybody have any notes on Heortling mining? Mining in
>the ancient world was generally incredibly unpleasant and dangerous.
>Most references I've seen to continuously operated mines involved the
>use of large numbers of slaves....
That's largely because of the Roman and Greek habit of using slaves to do their dirty work. It's not universally true (even within the roman empire, mines in spain were worked by free men).
>Since the Heortlings are no great shakes at civil engineering,
The same people that built Boldhome and the roads of Sartar?
--Peter Metcalfe
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