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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences