Building a city requires enormous quantities of a variety of materials, some of the more obvious being stone, sand, limestone for lime and wood.

A number of local quarries have been identified as supplying Argentomagus, mostly along the Bouzanne valley, others on the La Garenne hillside and one, further away, near Ambrault to the south of Issoudun.

There was an active market for clay products. Every-day pottery would have been produced locally. Knowing that essentials for a sizable pottery are clay, water and wood, it's not inconceivable that these workshops were situated down by the river Creuse.

The presence of checkers, tokens, hinge parts, knife and penknife handles, spoons, spatulas, awls, pins and needles, dice and medallions all lend credence to the presence of one or more workshops specialising in bone carving in the town.

Arriving from farms beyond the town, animals were slaughtered and butchered in one or several butcher's shops which were also established in Argentomagus. From a characteristic hole found on the front of recovered cattle skulls, it is safe to assume that, before killing them, the butchers would stun the animals with a tool akin to a cleaver.