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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection


Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
more comparative studies

experimental archaeology

comparing excavated sites


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
Crafts