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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection