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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites