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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection