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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Documentary record search

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)