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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)