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Celtic Saltworks at Marsal
    • Salt and humankind
      • A vital resource: salt
      • The salt of life
      • Uses of salt
      • Salt and society
      • Five thousand years of salt production in the Seille valley
      • How is salt produced?
      • Prehistory in the Seille Valley
      • The great turning point of the Iron Age
      • From antiquity to the early modern period
      • Late modern period
      • A brief history of research
      • Past research
      • The Briquetage de la Seille multidisciplinary research programme (2001–2017)
      • Research archives
    • Techniques and production
      • Proto-industrial Iron Age production
      • The salt producers’ expertise
      • From brine to salt
      • Salt producers at work
      • Proto-industrial Iron Age production
      • The world of Celtic and Gallic salt producers
      • Who were the salt producers?
      • An inherently unequal society
      • The white gold of the Celts
      • Mines in the Alps
      • Continental saltworks
      • Coastal workshops on the French coast
      • Coastal workshops in Germany, Belgium and Great Britain
    • Resources
    • Media library
    • Bibliography
    • About
    • Legal notice
    • Credits

Essential for preserving food and feeding livestock in pre-industrial societies, salt has long been a source of wealth, as well as a key strategic concern. Iron Age miners developed cutting-edge technology in the Seille valley, introducing techniques for the mass production of furnace components.

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  • Salt and humankind
    • A vital resource: salt
      • The salt of life
      • Uses of salt
      • Salt and society
    • Five thousand years of salt production in the Seille valley
      • How is salt produced?
      • Prehistory in the Seille Valley
      • The great turning point of the Iron Age
      • From antiquity to the early modern period
      • Late modern period
    • A brief history of research
      • Past research
      • The Briquetage de la Seille multidisciplinary research programme (2001–2017)
      • Research archives
  • Techniques and production
    • Proto-industrial Iron Age production
      • The salt producers’ expertise
      • From brine to salt
      • Salt producers at work
      • Proto-industrial Iron Age production
    • The world of Celtic and Gallic salt producers
      • Who were the salt producers?
      • An inherently unequal society
    • The white gold of the Celts
      • Mines in the Alps
      • Continental saltworks
      • Coastal workshops on the French coast
      • Coastal workshops in Germany, Belgium and Great Britain
  • Resources
    • Media library
    • Bibliography
  • About
    • Legal notice
    • Credits

Salt and humankind

  • A vital resource: salt
  • Five thousand years of salt production in the Seille valley
  • A brief history of research

Techniques and production

  • Proto-industrial Iron Age production
  • The world of Celtic and Gallic salt producers
  • The white gold of the Celts

Resources

  • Site plan
  • Media library
  • Bibliography

About

  • Legal notice
  • Credits
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