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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts