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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence