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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
comparing excavated sites


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
experimental reconstruction


Highly vesicular bloomery slag

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

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artefactual evidence


Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)