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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Crafts

Documentary record search

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites