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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)