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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)