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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)