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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

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Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Just digging

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)