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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

Conferences

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology