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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection