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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Crafts

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

Conferences