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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences