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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

experimental archaeology

 

 

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)