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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)