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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ