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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Crafts

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology