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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag