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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology