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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

more comparative studies