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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence