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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies