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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Conferences

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction