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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites