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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

more comparative studies