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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging