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comparing excavated sites

Crafts
more comparative studies

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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
artefactual evidence


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
experimental reconstruction


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
experimental archaeology


Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
& just digging