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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies