Mine
Archaeometallurgy, Guidelines for Best Practice, published by Historic England in 2015, suggests that: ‘…in order to obtain ores it is usually necessary to dig into the earth. In many cases this might consist of little more than a pit or quarry. The term mine is usually reserved for the more complex system of tunnels and shafts that are used to extract ore.’
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