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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

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