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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology