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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
comparing excavated sites

more comparative studies


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
& just digging

Documentary record search
experimental archaeology

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
experimental reconstruction


artefactual evidence

Crafts