Segers-Glocke, Christiane [Hrsg.]; Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege [Hrsg.]; Institut für Denkmalpflege [Hrsg.]; Balck, Friedrich [Bearb.]: Arbeitshefte zur Denkmalpflege in Niedersachsen: Aspects of mining and smelting in the Upper Harz Mountains (up to the 13th/14th century) - in the early times of a developing European culture and economy (St. Katharinen: Scripta Mercaturae Verl., Heft 22.2000)

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Fig. 7
Indicator plant - Taubenkropf on a slagheap.

Fig. 8
Agglomerations of smelter sites.

Location of smelters
1. situated in wide river meads or at the foot of a valley
2. situated near the confluence of small streams
3. situated in the transition from a steep valley to the surrounding plateau
4. situated near springs