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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Conferences

more comparative studies