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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)