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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences