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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)