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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

& just digging

Documentary record search

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence