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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ