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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone