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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone