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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

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