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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Crafts

Conferences

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)