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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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