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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone