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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction