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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

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Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)