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Re:Romans may have destroyed Moray metal-working site by ggm on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @05:33PM (#32244351)
It's my belief, iron and ironstone being high value, they'd have taken what they could with them, the inputs. Charcoal aside, the remains otherwise are more marginal value, you can do Iron in a mud brick hearth, there wouldn't have been a lot of immovable fixed infrastructure to take really. The charcoal is a pain to make, time consuming. Maybe they burned that to avoid the romans having access, but I tend to think the Romans did this, to deny re-use when the inevitable re-occupation came. They'd have lifted what they could, and destroyed the rest.

Not an archeologist. The best way to get good input is to post bad input and wait to be corrected!

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Re:Romans may have destroyed Moray metal-working site by diogenescynic on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:33PM (#32252648)
>Not an archeologist. The best way to get good input is to post bad input and wait to be corrected!

This is so true. If you ask for help, people will ignore you. But... if you post the wrong answer--people will fall over themselves to correct you. It's like a hack for human behavior.

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Re:Romans may have destroyed Moray metal-working site by ketralnis on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @03:19PM (#32255374)
And actively harmful in implementation. It spreads bad information, confidently posted for others to trust and duplicate.

Bad information labelled with an appropriate confidence rating can be useful as a starting point to others. ("I'm not sure but this looks sort of like a rail spike nail, maybe start there?") But labelled as good, to others that can't label it themselves, it just degrades the average value of the other information and also the confidence in it too.

HN loves this "hack" and often tells others to use it but then unironically complains about the quality of answers on Stack Overflow and the overconfidence of Dunning Kruger

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Re:Romans may have destroyed Moray metal-working site by ggm on Thursday July 28, 2022 @03:26AM (#32261425)
Well.. no archaeologist took the bait. The scots Roman ironfoundry mystery continues
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Re:Romans may have destroyed Moray metal-working site by diogenescynic on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @04:09PM (#32256159)
I feel like your comment only further proves the point I was making.
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Re:Romans may have destroyed Moray metal-working site by Gys on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @05:41PM (#32244438)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
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